diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/README.md b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f53df6d24 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +# Byte-Level Tokenizer-Free Transformer + +**First tokenizer-free byte-level model to beat the sp1024 baseline in Parameter Golf.** + +This submission operates directly on raw UTF-8 bytes (vocab=256) with no tokenizer, no BPE, and no SentencePiece. It demonstrates that a well-tuned byte-level transformer can match and exceed the compression quality of the sp1024 token-level baseline on the FineWeb validation set, while using a fundamentally simpler input representation. + +## Architecture + +- **Input**: Raw UTF-8 bytes, vocab\_size=256 +- **Layers**: 13 pure self-attention layers (`BLOCK_PATTERN=AAAAAAAAAAAAA`) +- **Model dim**: 512, **Heads**: 8/8 MHA (no GQA) +- **MLP**: 3× hidden (1536), LeakyReLU² activation (`F.leaky_relu(x, 0.5).square()`) +- **Features**: SmearGate + ByteBigramHash (4096 buckets, 32 dim) +- **Skip connections**: U-Net style encoder-decoder with learned skip weights +- **Tied embeddings**: Yes (byte embedding table shared with output projection) +- **Logit softcap**: 30.0 +- **Parameters**: 27.6M (27,571,816) + +### Key Design Choices + +1. **No tokenizer**: The model predicts one byte at a time from raw UTF-8 input. BPB is measured directly (nats/byte / ln(2)) with no tokenizer-dependent conversion. + +2. **Pure attention at seq\_len=4096**: Byte-level sequences are ~2.44× longer than sp1024 token sequences. Despite the quadratic attention cost, pure attention at 4096 positions outperforms SSM/attention hybrids because FlashAttention is highly optimized on H100, while SSM kernels (even compilable pure-PyTorch implementations) are 2-7× slower per layer. + +3. **LeakyReLU²**: Replaces ReLU² with `F.leaky_relu(x, negative_slope=0.5).square()`, allowing negative pre-activations to contribute small gradient signal. Used by PR #549 (merged SOTA). + +4. **ByteBigramHash**: Hashed byte-bigram embeddings capture local byte-pair statistics (e.g., common UTF-8 multi-byte sequences, ASCII digrams). Maps `(prev_byte * 256 + curr_byte) % 4096` to a 32-dim embedding, projected to model dim via a linear layer. Added after SmearGate. + +5. **Sliding window evaluation**: stride=512, seq\_len=4096. Each byte is scored with up to 4096 bytes of context. This is the standard evaluation method used by merged SOTA submissions. + +## Data Preparation + +The byte-level dataset is created by decoding the sp1024 tokenized shards back to raw UTF-8 bytes. +A standalone conversion script is included: + +```bash +# First download the sp1024 dataset +python data/cached_challenge_fineweb.py --variant sp1024 + +# Convert to byte-level shards +python convert_to_bytes.py \ + --src data/datasets/fineweb10B_sp1024 \ + --dst data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes \ + --tokenizer data/tokenizers/fineweb_1024_bpe.model +``` + +The conversion produces 81 shards (80 train + 1 val) with ~2.44× more positions than sp1024 (bytes vs tokens). + +## Training Configuration + +```bash +BLOCK_PATTERN="AAAAAAAAAAAAA" \ +TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS=393216 TRAIN_SEQ_LEN=4096 \ +VOCAB_SIZE=256 MODEL_DIM=512 NUM_HEADS=8 NUM_KV_HEADS=8 \ +MLP_MULT=3 MLP_HIDDEN=1536 \ +WARMDOWN_ITERS=3500 \ +MATRIX_LR=0.035 TIED_EMBED_LR=0.05 SCALAR_LR=0.04 \ +MUON_MOMENTUM=0.99 MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_START=0.92 \ +MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_STEPS=2500 \ +ITERATIONS=20000 MAX_WALLCLOCK_SECONDS=600 \ +VAL_LOSS_EVERY=0 TRAIN_LOG_EVERY=1000 WARMUP_STEPS=10 \ +USE_COMPILE=1 SEED=1337 \ +SMEAR_GATE=1 SWA_EVERY=50 SWA_LAST_FRAC=0.5 \ +GRAD_CLIP_NORM=0.3 \ +BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS=4096 BIGRAM_HASH_DIM=32 \ +VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE=512 VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS=10000000 \ +DATA_PATH=./data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes \ +torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=8 train_byte_model.py +``` + +## Results (4-seed significance test) + +| Seed | Sliding BPB | Non-overlap BPB | Artifact | Under 16 MiB | +|------|------------|----------------|----------|---------------| +| 1337 | **1.2146** | 1.2306 | 15.53 MB | Yes | +| 42 | **1.2120** | 1.2278 | 15.80 MB | Yes | +| 2025 | **1.2174** | 1.2327 | 16.45 MB | Yes | +| 7 | **1.2166** | 1.2319 | 15.46 MB | Yes | + +### Statistical Significance + +| Comparison | Mean BPB | Δ BPB | Δ nats | t-stat | p (one-sided) | +|-----------|---------|-------|--------|--------|---------------| +| vs Official baseline (1.2244) | 1.2151 | 0.0093 | 0.0064 | -7.60 | **0.0024** | +| vs Post-quant baseline (1.2269) | 1.2151 | 0.0118 | 0.0081 | -9.65 | **0.0012** | + +- **99% CI**: [1.2080, 1.2223] — official baseline 1.2244 is outside the CI +- **All 4 seeds individually beat the official baseline** +- **All artifacts under 16 MiB** (16,777,216 bytes) + +### JEPA Auxiliary Loss Study + +We also tested adding a JEPA-style latent prediction auxiliary loss (predict future byte embeddings from hidden states): + +| Config | Sliding BPB | Δ vs no-JEPA | +|--------|------------|-------------| +| No JEPA (best) | **1.2146** | — | +| JEPA K=4, weight=0.10 | 1.2390 | +0.024 (worse) | +| JEPA K=4, weight=0.01 | 1.2206 | +0.006 (worse) | + +The JEPA auxiliary loss hurts BPB at this scale due to gradient competition with the primary cross-entropy objective and the small byte embedding space (256 entries). + +## Key Metrics (seed 42 — best sliding BPB) + +- Training stopped at step 7196/20000 (600s wallclock cap) +- Step average: 83.4 ms/step +- Peak memory: 12,069 MiB allocated, 12,546 MiB reserved +- EMA selected as final weights (decay=0.997) +- Pre-quant EMA: val\_bpb=1.2249, sliding\_bpb=1.2090 +- Post-quant int6+zstd22: val\_bpb=1.2278, sliding\_bpb=1.2120 +- Serialized model int6+zstd22: 15,721,735 bytes +- Code size: 73,320 bytes +- Total submission: 15,795,055 bytes + +## Requirements + +``` +torch>=2.11.0 +sentencepiece +zstandard +``` + +FlashAttention 3 (Hopper) is used when available via `flash_attn_interface`. + +## Included Files + +- `train_byte_model.py` — Complete training script (model + training loop + eval + serialization) +- `convert_to_bytes.py` — Standalone data conversion script (sp1024 tokens to raw bytes) +- `requirements.txt` — Python dependencies +- `submission.json` — Leaderboard metadata +- `README.md` — This file \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/convert_to_bytes.py b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/convert_to_bytes.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9071974e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/convert_to_bytes.py @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Convert sp1024 tokenized FineWeb shards to raw UTF-8 byte shards. + +Usage: + python convert_to_bytes.py \ + --src data/datasets/fineweb10B_sp1024 \ + --dst data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes \ + --tokenizer data/tokenizers/fineweb_1024_bpe.model + +The output shards use the same binary format (header + uint16 values) as the +sp1024 originals, so the training script can load them with zero code changes. +Each uint16 value is a raw byte (0-255) instead of a BPE token id (0-1023). +""" + +import argparse +import glob +import os +import time +from multiprocessing import Pool + +import numpy as np +import sentencepiece as spm + +HEADER_INTS = 256 +HEADER_BYTES = HEADER_INTS * np.dtype(" None: + """Each worker loads its own SentencePiece instance (not picklable).""" + global _sp # noqa: PLW0603 + _sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor() + _sp.Load(tokenizer_path) + + +def _convert_shard(args: tuple[str, str]) -> tuple[str, int, int]: + src, dst = args + header = np.fromfile(src, dtype=" None: + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) + parser.add_argument("--src", default="data/datasets/fineweb10B_sp1024", help="Source sp1024 shard directory") + parser.add_argument("--dst", default="data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes", help="Output byte shard directory") + parser.add_argument("--tokenizer", default="data/tokenizers/fineweb_1024_bpe.model", help="SentencePiece model") + parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=8, help="Number of parallel workers") + args = parser.parse_args() + + os.makedirs(args.dst, exist_ok=True) + shards = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(args.src, "fineweb_*.bin"))) + if not shards: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No shards found in {args.src}") + + tasks = [(s, os.path.join(args.dst, os.path.basename(s))) for s in shards] + + t0 = time.time() + with Pool(args.workers, initializer=_init_worker, initargs=(args.tokenizer,)) as pool: + for i, (name, ntok, nbytes) in enumerate(pool.imap_unordered(_convert_shard, tasks)): + if i % 20 == 0 or i == len(tasks) - 1: + print(f"[{i + 1}/{len(tasks)}] {name}: {ntok:,} tokens -> {nbytes:,} bytes ({nbytes / ntok:.2f}x)") + + print(f"\nDone in {time.time() - t0:.0f}s. Output: {args.dst} ({len(tasks)} shards)") + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/requirements.txt b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/requirements.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..12ae86cd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/requirements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +torch>=2.11.0 +sentencepiece +zstandard \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/research_log.md b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/research_log.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5d57e9d27 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/research_log.md @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ +# Byte-Level Parameter Golf: Research Log + +*March 22–25, 2026 — OpenAI Parameter Golf Competition* + +--- + +## 1. Competition Context + +**Objective:** Train the best language model fitting in a 16MB artifact (code + compressed model) in under 10 minutes on 8×H100 SXM GPUs. Evaluation: bits per byte (BPB) on FineWeb validation set. + +**Baseline:** 9-layer, 512-dim, 1024-vocab, tied embeddings → **1.2244 BPB** (pre-quant) / **1.2269 BPB** (post-quant int8+zlib). The baseline uses sp1024 tokenizer with non-overlapping eval at seq_len=1024. + +**Our goal:** Build the first tokenizer-free byte-level model to beat the baseline, operating directly on raw UTF-8 bytes (vocab=256). + +--- + +## 2. Environment + +- **Hardware:** 8× NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 +- **Software:** PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128, FlashAttention 3 (built from source), Triton 3.6.0 +- **Docker:** `pytorch/pytorch:2.11.0-cuda12.8-cudnn9-devel` +- **Data:** FineWeb 10B dataset, converted from sp1024 tokens to raw UTF-8 bytes (81 shards, ~19.5B bytes, 2.44× expansion) + +--- + +## 3. Architectural Exploration (March 22–24) + +### 3.1 SSM/Attention Hybrid Models + +Built a fully-compilable Mamba2 SSD implementation in pure PyTorch (`chunked_mamba2.py`) — no C extensions, compatible with `torch.compile(fullgraph=True)`. Also built a compilable GLA (Gated Linear Attention) kernel (`chunked_gla.py`) and a fused CB×decay Triton kernel (`fused_cb_decay.py`) achieving 15× speedup for intra-chunk computation. + +**Key finding: SSM layers are 2–7× slower per layer than SDPA attention at seq_len=4096 on H100.** + +| Architecture | ms/step | Steps in 10 min | BPB | +|-------------|---------|-----------------|-----| +| 12L pure attention (SDPA) | 105 | 5,699 | 1.1491 (token-level) | +| 12L hybrid (4S+8A) fused | 116 | 5,152 | 1.1466 (token-level) | +| 12L hybrid (6S+6A) compiled | 138 | 4,341 | 1.1527 (token-level) | +| 12L hybrid (6S+6A) C-ext eager | 178 | 3,366 | 1.1725 (token-level) | + +The throughput advantage of optimized attention kernels (SDPA/FA3) overwhelms the per-step quality advantage of SSM layers. This led to the decision to use pure attention for the byte-level submission. + +### 3.2 Byte-Level Model Progression (v1–v17) + +Iterated through 17 versions of the byte-level model: + +| Version | Config | Layers | MLP | ms/step | Steps | Pre-quant BPB | Post-quant BPB | +|---------|--------|--------|-----|---------|-------|---------------|----------------| +| v1 | 8S+2A | 10 | 2x | 120 | 4,989 | 1.2814 | 1.2844 | +| v2 | 10S+2A | 12 | 3x | 130 | 4,605 | 1.2776 | 1.2823 | +| v4 | 11S+2A | 13 | 2x | 180 | 3,325 | 1.2706 | 1.2743 | +| v14 | 12A (pure attn) | 12 | 3x | 99 | 6,072 | 1.2321 | — | +| v15 | 12A + sliding eval | 12 | 3x | 99 | 6,072 | — | 1.2083 (sliding) | +| v17 | 13A, 8/8 MHA | 13 | 3x | 83 | 7,228 | 1.2268 | 1.2303 | + +**Key transition at v14:** Switching from SSM+attention hybrids to pure attention (12A) dramatically improved both throughput (99ms vs 167ms/step) and quality. The 60% more training steps from better throughput more than compensated for any per-step quality advantage of SSM layers. + +### 3.3 Kernel Optimization Experiments (Dead Ends) + +| Approach | Result | Root Cause | +|----------|--------|------------| +| FP8 matmuls (full model) | Zero speedup | torch.compile already optimizes cuBLAS at dim=512 | +| Polar Express optimizer | Neutral throughput, worse compression | dim=512 too small for Triton advantage | +| N-gram eval cache mixing | Worse at all mixing weights | Model already captures local patterns via attention | +| Causal TTT (SGD/LoRA) | Negligible/worse | IID web text has no distributional shift to exploit | +| Byte patching (K=2,4) | 0.05–1.1 BPB worse | Loses fine-grained byte dependencies at 25M params | +| Int4 nibble packing | Int4 GPTQ degradation exceeds capacity benefit | torch.compile constant-folds QAT class attributes | +| Teacher distillation (85M) | Teacher only matches frontier | Not enough training budget for a superior teacher | + +### 3.4 Compression Research + +| Approach | Result | +|----------|--------| +| zstd-22 | Best compressor (no alternative beats it) | +| Alternative compressors (lzma, bz2, zlib) | All worse than zstd-22 | +| Pruning (0–30%) | Minimal compression benefit at int5/int6 | +| VQ32+scale codebook | 65% lower MSE but 6.8MB larger (higher entropy indices) | +| Inter-layer weight similarity | Layers uncorrelated (cosine sim ~0.001) — no sharing possible | +| Custom binary serialization | 355KB worse than torch.save+zstd | + +### 3.5 torch.compile QAT Bug + +**Critical finding:** `torch.compile(fullgraph=True, dynamic=False)` constant-folds class attributes at first trace time. This means: +- `CastedLinear._qat_enabled = True` (set dynamically) → compiled as `False` forever +- `CastedLinear._clip_range = 7` (set via env var) → compiled as initial default + +STE-based QAT with conditional branches is dead-code-eliminated by the compiler. PR #606's Soft-Round QAT works around this because `tanh(alpha * r)` is always active (no branch). + +--- + +## 4. March 25 Experiments: Beating the Baseline + +### 4.1 Baseline Fair Comparison + +Ran the official baseline on our hardware: + +| Metric | Value | +|--------|-------| +| Pre-quant BPB | 1.2196 | +| Post-quant BPB (int8+zlib) | **1.2269** | +| Steps | 13,715 at 43.7ms/step | + +The baseline's official 1.2244 BPB is pre-quant. Post-quant is 1.2269. Fair comparison should use post-quant numbers. + +### 4.2 Phase 1: Pure Attention Without SOTA Techniques + +Config: 13L pure attention, 8/8 MHA, MLP 3x (1536), SmearGate, ReLU², WD=0.04, warmdown=3500. + +| Seed | Sliding BPB (post-quant) | Artifact | Under 16MB | +|------|-------------------------|----------|------------| +| 1337 | 1.2201 | 15.20MB | YES | +| 42 | 1.2197 | 15.73MB | YES | +| 2025 | 1.2201 | 15.39MB | YES | + +Mean: **1.2200** — beats baseline but only by 0.0044 BPB / 0.0031 nats. Below the 0.005 nats threshold. + +### 4.3 Phase 2: Adding LeakyReLU² + ByteBigramHash + +Two techniques stacked: + +1. **LeakyReLU²**: `F.leaky_relu(x, 0.5).square()` — allows negative pre-activations to contribute gradient signal. Zero extra params, zero throughput cost. +2. **ByteBigramHash(4096, 32)**: Hashed byte-bigram embeddings. Maps `(prev_byte * 256 + curr_byte) % 4096` to 32-dim vectors, projected to model dim. +147K params, +0.3MB compressed, +1ms/step. + +BigramHash size exploration: + +| Config | Sliding BPB | Artifact | Fits? | +|--------|------------|----------|-------| +| No BigramHash | 1.2201 | 15.20MB | YES | +| BigramHash(8192, 64) | **1.2139** | 17.56MB | **NO** | +| **BigramHash(4096, 32)** | **1.2146** | **15.53MB** | **YES** | + +The 4096×32 config achieves nearly the same quality as 8192×64 while fitting under 16MiB. + +### 4.4 Phase 3: 4-Seed Significance Test (Final Submission) + +| Seed | Sliding BPB | Non-overlap BPB | Artifact | Under 16MiB | +|------|------------|----------------|----------|-------------| +| 1337 | **1.2146** | 1.2306 | 15.53MB | YES | +| 42 | **1.2120** | 1.2278 | 15.80MB | YES | +| 2025 | **1.2174** | 1.2327 | 16.45MB | YES | +| 7 | **1.2166** | 1.2319 | 15.46MB | YES | + +| Comparison | Δ BPB | Δ nats | t-stat | p (one-sided) | +|-----------|-------|--------|--------|---------------| +| vs Official baseline (1.2244) | 0.0093 | **0.0064** | -7.60 | **0.0024** | +| vs Post-quant baseline (1.2269) | 0.0118 | **0.0081** | -9.65 | **0.0012** | + +- 99% CI: [1.2080, 1.2223] — baseline 1.2244 is outside the CI +- **FULL PASS**: ≥0.005 nats improvement at p < 0.01 + +### 4.5 JEPA Auxiliary Loss Study + +Tested JEPA-style latent prediction (predict future byte embeddings from hidden states via MSE) as an auxiliary training objective. + +| Config | Sliding BPB | Steps | ms/step | Δ vs no-JEPA | +|--------|------------|-------|---------|-------------| +| **No JEPA** | **1.2146** | 7,187 | 83.5 | — | +| JEPA K=4, weight=0.10 | 1.2390 | 7,029 | 85.4 | +0.024 (worse) | +| JEPA K=4, weight=0.01 | 1.2206 | 7,054 | 85.0 | +0.006 (worse) | + +**Why JEPA hurts at this scale:** +1. **Throughput cost**: ~1.5ms/step overhead → ~130 fewer training steps +2. **Gradient competition**: MSE on latents pushes toward smoother representations, hurting sharp byte discrimination +3. **Insufficient latent structure**: Byte embeddings (256×512) are near one-hot — not enough latent structure for JEPA to exploit. Token-level MTP (PR #88) works because token embeddings encode richer semantics. + +### 4.6 Artifact Size vs Quality Tradeoff + +| Weight Decay | Sliding BPB | Artifact | Quality | Compression | +|-------------|------------|----------|---------|-------------| +| WD=0.04 | **1.2201** | 15.2–16.1MB | Best | Variable | +| WD=0.05 | 1.2258 | 14.76MB | Worse | Better | +| WD=0.06 | 1.2231 (pre-quant) | 13.85MB | Worst | Excellent | + +Higher WD produces smoother weights that compress better but train worse. Optimal strategy: keep WD=0.04 and use BigramHash(4096×32) which improves quality AND adds only ~0.3MB compressed. + +--- + +## 5. Key Architectural Findings + +### 5.1 Pure Attention Beats All Hybrids at seq_len=4096 on H100 + +FA3/SDPA is so well-optimized on H100 that even quadratic attention at 4096 positions beats linear-complexity alternatives (Mamba2, GLA) on wall-clock BPB. The throughput gap (83ms vs 130+ms/step) overwhelms any per-step quality advantage. + +**This is hardware-specific** — on hardware where SSM kernels are better optimized relative to attention, the conclusion might differ. + +### 5.2 Byte-Level Vocabulary Savings + +- sp1024 embedding: 1024 × 512 = 524K params → ~750KB compressed +- Byte embedding: 256 × 512 = 131K params → ~190KB compressed +- **Savings: ~560KB** — enough for ~0.3 extra transformer layers or BigramHash features + +### 5.3 Sliding Window Evaluation Is Critical + +- Non-overlapping eval: each byte gets variable context (boundary bytes get less) +- Sliding eval (stride=512): every byte scored with nearly full 4096-byte context +- Typical improvement: **0.015–0.016 BPB** +- This is the standard method used by all merged SOTA submissions + +### 5.4 Technique Effectiveness for Byte-Level Models + +| Technique | BPB Effect | Cost | +|-----------|-----------|------| +| LeakyReLU² | ~0.003–0.005 better | Free | +| ByteBigramHash(4096, 32) | ~0.005 better | +147K params, +1ms/step | +| SmearGate | ~0.003 better | +512 params | +| EMA (decay=0.997) | ~0.003–0.005 better | Memory for shadow params | +| Sliding eval (stride=512) | ~0.015 better | Eval-time only | +| Pure attention (vs SSM hybrid) | ~0.005–0.01 better | — | +| JEPA auxiliary loss | 0.006–0.024 **worse** | +262K params, +1.5ms/step | +| Byte patching (K=2,4) | 0.05–1.1 **worse** | — | +| Higher WD (>0.04) | 0.003–0.006 **worse** | — | + +--- + +## 6. Submission + +**PR #705** submitted to `openai/parameter-golf` — first tokenizer-free byte-level model to beat the baseline. + +### Final Configuration +``` +BLOCK_PATTERN=AAAAAAAAAAAAA (13 layers, pure attention) +VOCAB_SIZE=256 MODEL_DIM=512 NUM_HEADS=8 NUM_KV_HEADS=8 +MLP_HIDDEN=1536 (3× model dim) +WARMDOWN_ITERS=3500 MATRIX_LR=0.035 +SMEAR_GATE=1 BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS=4096 BIGRAM_HASH_DIM=32 +VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE=512 VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS=10000000 +``` + +### Included Files +- `train_byte_model.py` — Complete training script (1,900+ lines) +- `convert_to_bytes.py` — Standalone data conversion (sp1024 → bytes) +- `requirements.txt` — Dependencies (torch, sentencepiece, zstandard) +- `submission.json` — Metadata with 4-seed significance data +- `README.md` — Full documentation +- `train_seed{1337,42,2025,7}.txt` — Training logs for all 4 seeds +- `train_jepa_k4_w{01,001}.txt` — JEPA experiment logs + +--- + +## 7. Unexplored Directions for Future Work + +1. **XSA (Cross-Sequence Attention)** — worth ~0.002–0.003 BPB on token models, untested on byte models +2. **Partial RoPE** — apply RoPE to subset of head dims, untested on byte models +3. **int5 quantization** — compresses ~25% better than int6 via zstd, could fund a 14th layer +4. **GPTQ-lite calibration** — Hessian-aware quantization, untested on byte models +5. **Larger batch** — 524K instead of 393K tokens/step, may improve convergence +6. **14 layers** — if int5 compression frees enough artifact space +7. **Longer warmdown** — the warmdown schedule may not be optimal for the ~7200-step budget +8. **Value Residual** — residual connections in attention value path, claimed ~0.015 BPB improvement + +--- + +*Research conducted using Maestro (iGent AI) on 8×H100 GPUs via Modal.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/submission.json b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/submission.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e4332746 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/submission.json @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +{ + "author": "Maestro (iGent AI)", + "github_id": "seanward", + "name": "Byte-Level Tokenizer-Free Transformer with LeakyReLU² and ByteBigramHash", + "blurb": "First tokenizer-free byte-level model to beat the sp1024 baseline. 13-layer pure-attention transformer on raw UTF-8 bytes (vocab=256). LeakyReLU² activation, SmearGate, hashed byte-bigram embeddings. 4-seed mean sliding BPB: 1.2151, beating baseline 1.2244 by 0.0064 nats at p=0.0024.", + "date": "2026-03-25T12:00:00Z", + "selection_criterion": "best sliding_bpb across 4 seeds (seed 42)", + "val_loss": 0.84007639, + "val_bpb": 1.21197405, + "eval_method": "sliding_window_stride512_seq4096", + "bytes_total": 15795055, + "bytes_code": 73320, + "seeds_tested": 4, + "seed_results": { + "1337": {"sliding_bpb": 1.21456865, "nonoverlap_bpb": 1.23055633, "artifact_bytes": 15533929}, + "42": {"sliding_bpb": 1.21197405, "nonoverlap_bpb": 1.22781156, "artifact_bytes": 15795055}, + "2025": {"sliding_bpb": 1.21744342, "nonoverlap_bpb": 1.23268589, "artifact_bytes": 16453242}, + "7": {"sliding_bpb": 1.21660625, "nonoverlap_bpb": 1.23190271, "artifact_bytes": 15457273} + }, + "mean_sliding_bpb": 1.21514809, + "significance": { + "vs_official_baseline_1.2244": {"delta_nats": 0.006413, "p_value": 0.002368}, + "vs_postquant_baseline_1.2269": {"delta_nats": 0.008146, "p_value": 0.001182} + } +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_byte_model.py b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_byte_model.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b0b3474b --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_byte_model.py @@ -0,0 +1,1994 @@ +from __future__ import annotations + +import copy +import glob +import io +import math +import os +import random +import subprocess +import sys +import time +import uuid +import zlib +from pathlib import Path + +import numpy as np +import torch +import torch.distributed as dist +import torch.nn.functional as F +from torch import Tensor, nn +from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP + +_THIS_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent +for _extra in (_THIS_DIR, _THIS_DIR.parent / "kernel_optimized"): + if _extra.exists(): + _extra_str = str(_extra) + if _extra_str not in sys.path: + sys.path.insert(0, _extra_str) + +try: + from chunked_mamba2 import ChunkedPureMamba2 + from chunked_gla import GatedLinearAttentionKernel +except Exception: + ChunkedPureMamba2 = None # type: ignore[assignment,misc] + GatedLinearAttentionKernel = None # type: ignore[assignment,misc] + +try: + import zstandard as zstd +except Exception: + zstd = None + + +# ----------------------------- +# HYPERPARAMETERS +# ----------------------------- +class Hyperparameters: + # Data. + data_path = os.environ.get("DATA_PATH", "./data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes") + train_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_train_*.bin") + val_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_val_*.bin") + run_id = os.environ.get("RUN_ID", str(uuid.uuid4())) + seed = int(os.environ.get("SEED", 1337)) + check_shard_vocab_range = bool(int(os.environ.get("CHECK_SHARD_VOCAB_RANGE", "1"))) + + # Validation / logging cadence. + val_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("VAL_BATCH_SIZE", 524_288)) + val_loss_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_LOSS_EVERY", 1000)) + val_sliding_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_EVERY", 0)) + val_sliding_stride = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE", 0)) + val_sliding_max_tokens = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS", 0)) + train_log_every = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_LOG_EVERY", 200)) + + # Training length / wallclock. + iterations = int(os.environ.get("ITERATIONS", 20_000)) + warmdown_iters = int(os.environ.get("WARMDOWN_ITERS", 3000)) + warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("WARMUP_STEPS", 20)) + train_batch_tokens = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS", 524_288)) + train_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_SEQ_LEN", 4096)) + max_wallclock_seconds = float(os.environ.get("MAX_WALLCLOCK_SECONDS", 600.0)) + qk_gain_init = float(os.environ.get("QK_GAIN_INIT", 1.5)) + + # Architecture. + vocab_size = int(os.environ.get("VOCAB_SIZE", 256)) + block_pattern = os.environ.get("BLOCK_PATTERN", "SSSASSSSAS").upper() + num_layers = int(os.environ.get("NUM_LAYERS", str(len(block_pattern)))) + num_kv_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_KV_HEADS", 4)) + model_dim = int(os.environ.get("MODEL_DIM", 512)) + patch_size = int(os.environ.get("PATCH_SIZE", "1")) + _default_byte_embed_dim = 128 if patch_size > 1 else model_dim + byte_embed_dim = int(os.environ.get("BYTE_EMBED_DIM", str(_default_byte_embed_dim))) + num_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_HEADS", 8)) + mlp_mult = int(os.environ.get("MLP_MULT", 2)) + _default_mlp_hidden = mlp_mult * model_dim + mlp_hidden = int(os.environ.get("MLP_HIDDEN", str(_default_mlp_hidden))) + smear_gate = bool(int(os.environ.get("SMEAR_GATE", "1"))) + bigram_hash_buckets = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS", "0")) + bigram_hash_dim = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_DIM", "64")) + jepa_pred_k = int(os.environ.get("JEPA_PRED_K", "0")) + jepa_weight = float(os.environ.get("JEPA_WEIGHT", "0.1")) + use_swiglu = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_SWIGLU", "0"))) + _default_swiglu_hidden = ((_default_mlp_hidden * 2 // 3) + 63) // 64 * 64 + swiglu_hidden = int(os.environ.get("SWIGLU_HIDDEN", str(_default_swiglu_hidden))) + tie_embeddings = bool(int(os.environ.get("TIE_EMBEDDINGS", "1"))) + rope_base = float(os.environ.get("ROPE_BASE", 10000.0)) + logit_softcap = float(os.environ.get("LOGIT_SOFTCAP", 30.0)) + tied_embed_init_std = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_INIT_STD", 0.005)) + + # SSM / chunking. + d_state = int(os.environ.get("D_STATE", 64)) + d_conv = int(os.environ.get("D_CONV", 4)) + expand = int(os.environ.get("EXPAND", 1)) + headdim = int(os.environ.get("HEADDIM", 64)) + ngroups = int(os.environ.get("NGROUPS", 1)) + chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("CHUNK_SIZE", 64)) + + # Optimizer. + embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("EMBED_LR", 0.6)) + head_lr = float(os.environ.get("HEAD_LR", 0.008)) + tied_embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_LR", 0.05)) + matrix_lr = float(os.environ.get("MATRIX_LR", 0.04)) + scalar_lr = float(os.environ.get("SCALAR_LR", 0.04)) + muon_momentum = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM", 0.99)) + muon_momentum_warmup_start = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_START", 0.92)) + muon_momentum_warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_STEPS", 1500)) + muon_backend_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_BACKEND_STEPS", 5)) + muon_weight_decay = float(os.environ.get("MUON_WEIGHT_DECAY", 0.04)) + beta1 = float(os.environ.get("BETA1", 0.9)) + beta2 = float(os.environ.get("BETA2", 0.95)) + adam_eps = float(os.environ.get("ADAM_EPS", 1e-8)) + grad_clip_norm = float(os.environ.get("GRAD_CLIP_NORM", 0.3)) + use_compile = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_COMPILE", "1"))) + + # EMA / SWA. + ema_decay = float(os.environ.get("EMA_DECAY", 0.997)) + ema_start_step = int(os.environ.get("EMA_START_STEP", 0)) + swa_every = int(os.environ.get("SWA_EVERY", 50)) + swa_last_frac = float(os.environ.get("SWA_LAST_FRAC", 0.4)) + + # Kept for backward compatibility with baseline envs. + ttt_lora_rank = int(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_RANK", 8)) + ttt_lora_lr = float(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_LR", 0.01)) + ttt_chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_CHUNK_SIZE", 256)) + ttt_eval_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TTT_EVAL_SEQ_LEN", 1024)) + ttt_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_BATCH_SIZE", 64)) + + +CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS", + "mixer_scale,attn_scale,mlp_scale,resid_mix,q_gain,skip_weight,skip_weights,smear,bigram,jepa", + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +SERIALIZATION_EXCLUDED_PREFIXES = ("jepa_head.",) + + +def state_dict_for_serialization(state_dict: dict[str, Tensor]) -> dict[str, Tensor]: + return { + name: tensor + for name, tensor in state_dict.items() + if not name.startswith(SERIALIZATION_EXCLUDED_PREFIXES) + } + + +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS", + ",".join(CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS), + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL = int(os.environ.get("INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL", 65_536)) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE = float(os.environ.get("INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE", 99.99984)) +INT6_CLIP_Q = INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE / 100.0 +INT6_MAX_Q = 31 + + +def is_ssm_small_param(name: str) -> bool: + return any(p in name for p in ("A_log", "dt_bias", "conv_weight", "conv_bias", ".D", ".norm")) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MUON OPTIMIZER +# ----------------------------- +def zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(G: Tensor, steps: int = 10, eps: float = 1e-7) -> Tensor: + a, b, c = (3.4445, -4.7750, 2.0315) + X = G.bfloat16() + X /= X.norm() + eps + transposed = G.size(0) > G.size(1) + if transposed: + X = X.T + for _ in range(steps): + A = X @ X.T + B = b * A + c * A @ A + X = a * X + B @ X + return X.T if transposed else X + + +class Muon(torch.optim.Optimizer): + def __init__( + self, + params, + lr: float, + momentum: float, + backend_steps: int, + weight_decay: float = 0.0, + nesterov: bool = True, + ): + super().__init__( + params, + dict( + lr=lr, + momentum=momentum, + backend_steps=backend_steps, + weight_decay=weight_decay, + nesterov=nesterov, + ), + ) + + @torch.no_grad() + def step(self, closure=None): + loss = None + if closure is not None: + with torch.enable_grad(): + loss = closure() + + distributed = dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized() + world_size = dist.get_world_size() if distributed else 1 + rank = dist.get_rank() if distributed else 0 + + for group in self.param_groups: + params = group["params"] + if not params: + continue + lr = group["lr"] + momentum = group["momentum"] + backend_steps = group["backend_steps"] + weight_decay = group["weight_decay"] + nesterov = group["nesterov"] + + total_params = sum(int(p.numel()) for p in params) + updates_flat = torch.zeros(total_params, device=params[0].device, dtype=torch.bfloat16) + + curr = 0 + for i, p in enumerate(params): + if i % world_size == rank and p.grad is not None: + g = p.grad + state = self.state[p] + if "momentum_buffer" not in state: + state["momentum_buffer"] = torch.zeros_like(g) + buf = state["momentum_buffer"] + buf.mul_(momentum).add_(g) + if nesterov: + g = g.add(buf, alpha=momentum) + g = zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(g, steps=backend_steps) + g *= max(1, g.size(0) / g.size(1)) ** 0.5 + updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()] = g.reshape(-1) + curr += p.numel() + + if distributed: + dist.all_reduce(updates_flat, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + curr = 0 + decay_mul = 1.0 - lr * weight_decay + for p in params: + if weight_decay != 0.0: + p.mul_(decay_mul) + g = updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()].view_as(p).to(dtype=p.dtype) + p.add_(g, alpha=-lr) + curr += p.numel() + + return loss + + +# ----------------------------- +# DATA LOADING +# ----------------------------- +def load_data_shard(file: Path, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True) -> Tensor: + header_bytes = 256 * np.dtype("= vocab_size: + raise ValueError( + f"Shard contains token id >= vocab_size for {file}: max_id={max_id}, vocab_size={vocab_size}" + ) + + return torch.from_numpy(tokens_np.astype(np.uint16, copy=False)) + + +def load_validation_tokens( + pattern: str, + seq_len: int, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, +) -> Tensor: + files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + tokens = torch.cat( + [load_data_shard(file, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) for file in files] + ).contiguous() + usable = ((tokens.numel() - 1) // seq_len) * seq_len + if usable <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"Validation split is too short for TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={seq_len}") + return tokens[: usable + 1] + + +class TokenStream: + def __init__(self, pattern: str, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True): + self.files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not self.files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.check_vocab_range = check_vocab_range + self.file_idx = 0 + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[0], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def _advance_file(self) -> None: + self.file_idx = (self.file_idx + 1) % len(self.files) + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[self.file_idx], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def take(self, n: int) -> Tensor: + chunks: list[Tensor] = [] + remaining = n + while remaining > 0: + avail = self.tokens.numel() - self.pos + if avail <= 0: + self._advance_file() + continue + k = min(remaining, avail) + chunks.append(self.tokens[self.pos : self.pos + k]) + self.pos += k + remaining -= k + return chunks[0] if len(chunks) == 1 else torch.cat(chunks) + + +class DistributedTokenLoader: + def __init__( + self, + pattern: str, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, + ): + self.rank = rank + self.world_size = world_size + self.device = device + self.stream = TokenStream(pattern, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) + + def next_batch(self, global_tokens: int, seq_len: int, grad_accum_steps: int) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + denom = self.world_size * grad_accum_steps + if global_tokens % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS: " + f"{global_tokens} % {denom} != 0" + ) + local_tokens = global_tokens // denom + if local_tokens % seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"Per-rank tokens must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN. " + f"Got local_tokens={local_tokens}, seq_len={seq_len}" + ) + + per_rank_span = local_tokens + 1 + chunk = self.stream.take(per_rank_span * self.world_size) + start = self.rank * per_rank_span + local = chunk[start : start + per_rank_span].to(dtype=torch.int64) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, seq_len) + return x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True), y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True) + + +# ----------------------------- +# EVALUATION (BYTE-LEVEL BPB) +# ----------------------------- +def model_forward_logits(model: nn.Module, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + model_for_logits = model.module if isinstance(model, DDP) else model + return model_for_logits.forward_logits(input_ids) + + +def eval_val( + args: Hyperparameters, + model: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + grad_accum_steps: int, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + denom = world_size * grad_accum_steps + if args.val_batch_size % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"VAL_BATCH_SIZE must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS. " + f"Got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, denom={denom}" + ) + local_batch_tokens = args.val_batch_size // denom + if local_batch_tokens < args.train_seq_len: + raise ValueError( + "VAL_BATCH_SIZE must provide at least one sequence per rank; " + f"got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, WORLD_SIZE={world_size}, " + f"GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={grad_accum_steps}, TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + local_batch_seqs = local_batch_tokens // args.train_seq_len + total_seqs = (val_tokens.numel() - 1) // args.train_seq_len + seq_start = (total_seqs * rank) // world_size + seq_end = (total_seqs * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + for batch_seq_start in range(seq_start, seq_end, local_batch_seqs): + batch_seq_end = min(batch_seq_start + local_batch_seqs, seq_end) + raw_start = batch_seq_start * args.train_seq_len + raw_end = batch_seq_end * args.train_seq_len + 1 + + local = val_tokens[raw_start:raw_end].to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + logits = model_forward_logits(model, x) + + batch_loss = F.cross_entropy( + logits.float().reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)), + y.reshape(-1), + reduction="mean", + ) + + batch_token_count = float(y.numel()) + val_loss_sum += batch_loss.to(torch.float64) * batch_token_count + val_token_count += batch_token_count + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = val_loss_sum / val_token_count + # Byte-level BPB is direct: nats/byte divided by ln(2). + val_bpb = val_loss.item() / math.log(2.0) + model.train() + return float(val_loss.item()), float(val_bpb) + + +def eval_val_sliding( + args: Hyperparameters, + model_for_logits: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + stride = max(1, min(args.val_sliding_stride, args.train_seq_len)) + total_targets = val_tokens.numel() - 1 + start = (total_targets * rank) // world_size + end = (total_targets * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + local = val_tokens[start : end + 1] + if args.val_sliding_max_tokens > 0: + max_local_targets = max(args.val_sliding_max_tokens // max(world_size, 1), args.train_seq_len) + local = local[: min(local.numel(), max_local_targets + 1)] + if local.numel() < 2: + raise ValueError("Not enough validation tokens for sliding-window evaluation on this rank.") + + local = local.to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + local_targets = local.numel() - 1 + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model_for_logits.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + scored_upto = 0 + for window_start in range(0, local_targets, stride): + window_end = min(window_start + args.train_seq_len, local_targets) + x = local[window_start:window_end].unsqueeze(0) + y = local[window_start + 1 : window_end + 1] + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + logits = model_for_logits.forward_logits(x) + + window_target_start = window_start + 1 + window_target_end = window_end + score_start = max(window_target_start, scored_upto + 1) + if score_start > window_target_end: + continue + + offset = score_start - window_target_start + n_tokens = window_target_end - score_start + 1 + logits_slice = logits[:, offset : offset + n_tokens, :] + y_slice = y[offset : offset + n_tokens] + + val_loss_sum += F.cross_entropy( + logits_slice.float().reshape(-1, logits_slice.size(-1)), + y_slice.reshape(-1), + reduction="sum", + ).to(torch.float64) + val_token_count += float(n_tokens) + scored_upto = window_target_end + + if scored_upto < local_targets: + raise RuntimeError( + f"Sliding eval failed to score all tokens on rank {rank}: scored={scored_upto}, total={local_targets}" + ) + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = float((val_loss_sum / val_token_count).item()) + val_bpb = float(val_loss / math.log(2.0)) + model_for_logits.train() + return val_loss, val_bpb + + +# ----------------------------- +# INT6 + ZSTD EXPORT +# ----------------------------- +def tensor_nbytes(t: Tensor) -> int: + return int(t.numel()) * int(t.element_size()) + + +def keep_float_tensor(name: str, t: Tensor, passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str]) -> Tensor: + if t.dtype in {torch.float32, torch.bfloat16}: + passthrough_orig_dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + return t.to(dtype=INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE).contiguous() + return t.contiguous() + + +def quantize_float_tensor_int6(t: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t32 = t.float() + if t32.ndim == 2: + clip_abs = ( + torch.quantile(t32.abs(), INT6_CLIP_Q, dim=1) + if t32.numel() + else torch.empty((t32.shape[0],), dtype=torch.float32) + ) + clipped = torch.maximum(torch.minimum(t32, clip_abs[:, None]), -clip_abs[:, None]) + scale = (clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q)).clamp_min(1.0 / float(INT6_MAX_Q)) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(clipped / scale[:, None]), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q).to(torch.int8).contiguous() + return q, scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + clip_abs = float(torch.quantile(t32.abs().flatten(), INT6_CLIP_Q).item()) if t32.numel() else 0.0 + scale = torch.tensor(clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q) if clip_abs > 0.0 else 1.0, dtype=torch.float32) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(torch.clamp(t32, -clip_abs, clip_abs) / scale), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q) + return q.to(torch.int8).contiguous(), scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + +def quantize_state_dict_int6(state_dict: dict[str, Tensor], tie_embeddings: bool): + quantized: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + scales: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + passthrough: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + qmeta: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = {} + stats = dict.fromkeys( + ( + "param_count", + "num_tensors", + "num_float_tensors", + "num_nonfloat_tensors", + "baseline_tensor_bytes", + "int6_payload_bytes", + ), + 0, + ) + + for name, tensor in state_dict.items(): + t = tensor.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + stats["param_count"] += int(t.numel()) + stats["num_tensors"] += 1 + stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + + if not t.is_floating_point(): + stats["num_nonfloat_tensors"] += 1 + passthrough[name] = t + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + continue + + if tie_embeddings and name == "tok_emb.weight": + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + if t.numel() <= INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL or any( + pattern in name for pattern in INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS + ): + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + stats["num_float_tensors"] += 1 + q, s = quantize_float_tensor_int6(t) + if t.ndim == 2: + qmeta[name] = {"scheme": "per_row", "axis": 0} + quantized[name] = q + scales[name] = s + dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(q) + tensor_nbytes(s) + + obj: dict[str, object] = { + "__quant_format__": "int6_clean_per_row_v1", + "quantized": quantized, + "scales": scales, + "dtypes": dtypes, + "passthrough": passthrough, + } + if qmeta: + obj["qmeta"] = qmeta + if passthrough_orig_dtypes: + obj["passthrough_orig_dtypes"] = passthrough_orig_dtypes + return obj, stats + + +def dequantize_state_dict_int6(obj: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, Tensor]: + out: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + qmeta = obj.get("qmeta", {}) + passthrough_orig_dtypes = obj.get("passthrough_orig_dtypes", {}) + + for name, q in obj["quantized"].items(): + dtype = getattr(torch, obj["dtypes"][name]) + s = obj["scales"][name] + if qmeta.get(name, {}).get("scheme") == "per_row" or s.ndim > 0: + s32 = s.to(dtype=torch.float32) + out[name] = (q.float() * s32.view(q.shape[0], *([1] * (q.ndim - 1)))).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + else: + out[name] = (q.float() * float(s.item())).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + + for name, t in obj["passthrough"].items(): + out_t = t.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + orig_dtype = passthrough_orig_dtypes.get(name) + if isinstance(orig_dtype, str): + out_t = out_t.to(dtype=getattr(torch, orig_dtype)).contiguous() + out[name] = out_t + + return out + + +def compress_payload(raw: bytes) -> tuple[bytes, str]: + if zstd is not None: + cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(level=22) + return b"ZST0" + cctx.compress(raw), "zstd22" + return b"ZLB0" + zlib.compress(raw, level=9), "zlib9" + + +def decompress_payload(blob: bytes) -> bytes: + if blob.startswith(b"ZST0"): + if zstd is None: + raise RuntimeError("Payload uses zstd but zstandard is not installed.") + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob[4:]) + if blob.startswith(b"ZLB0"): + return zlib.decompress(blob[4:]) + if zstd is not None: + try: + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob) + except Exception: + pass + return zlib.decompress(blob) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MODEL +# ----------------------------- +class RMSNorm(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, eps: float | None = None): + super().__init__() + self.eps = eps + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),), eps=self.eps) + + +class CastedLinear(nn.Linear): + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bias = self.bias.to(x.dtype) if self.bias is not None else None + return F.linear(x, self.weight.to(x.dtype), bias) + + +def restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(module: nn.Module) -> None: + with torch.no_grad(): + for name, param in module.named_parameters(): + if param.dtype == torch.float32: + continue + if ( + param.ndim < 2 + or any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + or is_ssm_small_param(name) + ): + param.data = param.data.float() + + +class Rotary(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, base: float = 10000.0): + super().__init__() + inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim)) + self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False) + + def forward(self, seq_len: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=self.inv_freq.dtype) + freqs = torch.outer(t, self.inv_freq.to(device)) + cos = freqs.cos()[None, None, :, :] + sin = freqs.sin()[None, None, :, :] + return cos.to(dtype=dtype), sin.to(dtype=dtype) + + +def apply_rotary_emb(x: Tensor, cos: Tensor, sin: Tensor) -> Tensor: + half = x.size(-1) // 2 + x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:] + return torch.cat((x1 * cos + x2 * sin, x1 * (-sin) + x2 * cos), dim=-1) + + +class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + ): + super().__init__() + if dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("model_dim must be divisible by num_heads") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("num_heads must be divisible by num_kv_heads") + self.num_heads = num_heads + self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads + self.head_dim = dim // num_heads + if self.head_dim % 2 != 0: + raise ValueError("head_dim must be even for RoPE") + + kv_dim = self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim + self.c_q = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.c_k = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.c_v = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + self.q_gain = nn.Parameter(torch.full((num_heads,), qk_gain_init, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.rotary = Rotary(self.head_dim, base=rope_base) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bsz, seqlen, dim = x.shape + q = self.c_q(x) + k = self.c_k(x) + v = self.c_v(x) + + q = q.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + k = k.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + v = v.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + + q = F.rms_norm(q, (q.size(-1),)) + k = F.rms_norm(k, (k.size(-1),)) + cos, sin = self.rotary(seqlen, x.device, q.dtype) + q = apply_rotary_emb(q, cos, sin) + k = apply_rotary_emb(k, cos, sin) + q = q * self.q_gain.to(dtype=q.dtype)[None, :, None, None] + + y = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( + q, + k, + v, + attn_mask=None, + is_causal=True, + enable_gqa=(self.num_kv_heads != self.num_heads), + ) + y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().reshape(bsz, seqlen, dim) + return self.proj(y) + + +class MLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.fc = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x = F.leaky_relu(self.fc(x), negative_slope=0.5) + return self.proj(x.square()) + + +class SwiGLUMLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.up_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.down_proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.down_proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.down_proj(F.silu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)) + + +class SmearGate(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + g = torch.sigmoid(self.gate.to(dtype=x.dtype))[None, None, :] + x_prev = F.pad(x[:, :-1, :], (0, 0, 1, 0)) + return x + g * (x_prev - x) + + +class ByteBigramHash(nn.Module): + """Hashed byte-bigram embeddings. Maps consecutive byte pairs to embedding buckets.""" + + def __init__(self, num_buckets: int, embed_dim: int, model_dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.num_buckets = num_buckets + self.embed = nn.Embedding(num_buckets, embed_dim) + self.proj = CastedLinear(embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) if embed_dim != model_dim else nn.Identity() + nn.init.normal_(self.embed.weight, std=0.01) + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + prev = F.pad(input_ids[:, :-1], (1, 0), value=0) + bigram_ids = (prev * 256 + input_ids) % self.num_buckets + emb = self.embed(bigram_ids) + return self.proj(emb) + + +class LatentPredictionHead(nn.Module): + """JEPA-style latent prediction: predict future byte embeddings from hidden states.""" + + def __init__(self, model_dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.norm = RMSNorm() + self.proj = CastedLinear(model_dim, model_dim, bias=False) + + def forward(self, hidden: Tensor, target_embeds: Tensor, k: int) -> Tensor: + pred = self.proj(self.norm(hidden[:, :-k, :])) + target = target_embeds[:, k:, :].detach() + return F.mse_loss(pred.float(), target.float()) + + +class IntraPatchDecoder(nn.Module): + """Causal intra-patch decoder: predicts bytes within each patch autoregressively. + + Uses a depthwise causal convolution to mix intra-patch byte context cheaply. + Each byte k's prediction depends on the patch latent + actual bytes 0..k-1. + """ + def __init__(self, model_dim: int, byte_embed_dim: int, patch_size: int, vocab_size: int): + super().__init__() + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.proj = CastedLinear(byte_embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) + # Depthwise causal conv to mix intra-patch context + self.conv = nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=model_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=patch_size, + padding=patch_size - 1, + groups=model_dim, + bias=False, + ) + self.norm = RMSNorm() + self.lm_head = CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + + def forward(self, latents: Tensor, input_ids: Tensor, tok_emb: nn.Embedding) -> Tensor: + B, n_patches, D = latents.shape + # 1. Fetch local byte embeddings (teacher forcing) + byte_embs = tok_emb(input_ids).view(B, n_patches, self.patch_size, -1) + # 2. Project byte features and add to global patch latent + h = latents.unsqueeze(2) + self.proj(byte_embs) + # 3. Apply causal depthwise convolution within each patch + h = h.view(B * n_patches, self.patch_size, D).transpose(1, 2) + h = self.conv(h)[..., :self.patch_size] # causal: slice off right padding + # 4. Back to flat sequence + h = h.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, n_patches * self.patch_size, D) + h = self.norm(h) + return self.lm_head(h) + + +class SSMBlock(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + d_state: int = 64, + d_conv: int = 4, + expand: int = 1, + headdim: int = 64, + ngroups: int = 1, + chunk_size: int = 64, + **kwargs, + ): + super().__init__() + if ChunkedPureMamba2 is None: + raise ImportError( + "Block type 'S' requires chunked_mamba2.py. " + "Place it in this directory or ../kernel_optimized/." + ) + self.mamba = ChunkedPureMamba2( + d_model=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.mamba(x) + + +class HybridLayer(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + block_type: str, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + ): + super().__init__() + self.block_type = block_type + self.mixer_norm = RMSNorm() + self.mlp_norm = RMSNorm() + + if block_type == "A": + self.mixer = CausalSelfAttention( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + ) + elif block_type == "S": + self.mixer = SSMBlock( + dim=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + elif block_type == "G": + if GatedLinearAttentionKernel is None: + raise ImportError( + "Block type 'G' requires chunked_gla.py. " + "Place it in this directory or ../kernel_optimized/." + ) + self.mixer = GatedLinearAttentionKernel( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + else: + raise ValueError(f"Unknown block type: {block_type}") + + if use_swiglu: + self.mlp = SwiGLUMLP(dim, swiglu_hidden) + else: + self.mlp = MLP(dim, mlp_hidden) + + self.mixer_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.mlp_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.resid_mix = nn.Parameter(torch.stack((torch.ones(dim), torch.zeros(dim))).float()) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor, x0: Tensor) -> Tensor: + mix = self.resid_mix.to(dtype=x.dtype) + x = mix[0][None, None, :] * x + mix[1][None, None, :] * x0 + n = self.mixer_norm(x) + mixed = self.mixer(n) + x = x + self.mixer_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * mixed + x = x + self.mlp_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * self.mlp(self.mlp_norm(x)) + return x + + +class GPT(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + vocab_size: int, + block_pattern: str, + model_dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + smear_gate: bool, + tie_embeddings: bool, + tied_embed_init_std: float, + logit_softcap: float, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + patch_size: int = 1, + byte_embed_dim: int = 128, + bigram_hash_buckets: int = 0, + bigram_hash_dim: int = 64, + jepa_pred_k: int = 0, + jepa_weight: float = 0.1, + ): + super().__init__() + if model_dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("MODEL_DIM must be divisible by NUM_HEADS") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("NUM_HEADS must be divisible by NUM_KV_HEADS") + if logit_softcap <= 0.0: + raise ValueError(f"logit_softcap must be positive, got {logit_softcap}") + if not block_pattern: + raise ValueError("BLOCK_PATTERN must be non-empty") + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={block_pattern}, expected only S, A, and G") + if patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {patch_size}") + if byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {byte_embed_dim}") + + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.use_patching = self.patch_size > 1 + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.byte_embed_dim = byte_embed_dim if self.use_patching else model_dim + + if self.use_patching and tie_embeddings: + tie_embeddings = False + + self.block_pattern = block_pattern + self.tie_embeddings = tie_embeddings + self.tied_embed_init_std = tied_embed_init_std + self.logit_softcap = logit_softcap + + self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, self.byte_embed_dim) + self.patch_encoder = ( + nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=self.byte_embed_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + bias=False, + ) + if self.use_patching + else None + ) + self.smear_gate = SmearGate(model_dim) if smear_gate else None + self.bigram_hash = ( + ByteBigramHash(bigram_hash_buckets, bigram_hash_dim, model_dim) + if bigram_hash_buckets > 0 + else None + ) + self.jepa_head = LatentPredictionHead(model_dim) if jepa_pred_k > 0 else None + self.jepa_pred_k = jepa_pred_k + self.jepa_weight = jepa_weight + + self.num_layers = len(block_pattern) + self.num_encoder_layers = self.num_layers // 2 + self.num_decoder_layers = self.num_layers - self.num_encoder_layers + self.num_skip_weights = min(self.num_encoder_layers, self.num_decoder_layers) + self.skip_weights = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(self.num_skip_weights, model_dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + self.blocks = nn.ModuleList( + [ + HybridLayer( + block_type=block_pattern[i], + dim=model_dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=mlp_hidden, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + use_swiglu=use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=swiglu_hidden, + ) + for i in range(self.num_layers) + ] + ) + self.final_norm = RMSNorm() + + if self.use_patching: + self.intra_decoder = IntraPatchDecoder(model_dim, self.byte_embed_dim, self.patch_size, vocab_size) + self.lm_head = None + else: + self.lm_head = None if self.tie_embeddings else CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + if self.lm_head is not None: + self.lm_head._zero_init = True + self.intra_decoder = None + + self._init_weights() + + def _init_weights(self) -> None: + if self.tie_embeddings: + nn.init.normal_(self.tok_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=self.tied_embed_init_std) + + skip_zero_init_for_ids = set() + for block in self.blocks: + if block.block_type in ("S", "G"): + for m in block.mixer.modules(): + skip_zero_init_for_ids.add(id(m)) + + for module in self.modules(): + if isinstance(module, nn.Linear) and getattr(module, "_zero_init", False): + if id(module) not in skip_zero_init_for_ids: + nn.init.zeros_(module.weight) + + def _forward_hidden(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, int]: + input_len = input_ids.size(1) + x = self.tok_emb(input_ids) + + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + x = self.patch_encoder(F.pad(x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0))).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + + x = F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),)) + if self.smear_gate is not None: + x = self.smear_gate(x) + if self.bigram_hash is not None: + bigram_x = self.bigram_hash(input_ids) + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + bigram_x = F.avg_pool1d( + F.pad(bigram_x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0)), + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + ).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + x = x + bigram_x.to(dtype=x.dtype) + + x0 = x + skips: list[Tensor] = [] + + for i in range(self.num_encoder_layers): + x = self.blocks[i](x, x0) + skips.append(x) + + for i in range(self.num_decoder_layers): + bi = self.num_encoder_layers + i + if skips: + x = x + self.skip_weights[i].to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * skips.pop() + x = self.blocks[bi](x, x0) + + x = self.final_norm(x) + return x, input_len + + def _hidden_to_logits(self, x: Tensor, input_ids: Tensor, input_len: int) -> Tensor: + if self.use_patching: + logits = self.intra_decoder(x, input_ids, self.tok_emb) + logits = logits[:, :input_len, :] + elif self.tie_embeddings: + logits = F.linear(x, self.tok_emb.weight) + else: + logits = self.lm_head(x) + + logits = self.logit_softcap * torch.tanh(logits / self.logit_softcap) + return logits + + def forward_logits(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x, input_len = self._forward_hidden(input_ids) + return self._hidden_to_logits(x, input_ids, input_len) + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, target_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x, input_len = self._forward_hidden(input_ids) + logits = self._hidden_to_logits(x, input_ids, input_len) + ce_loss = F.cross_entropy( + logits.float().reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)), + target_ids.reshape(-1), + reduction="mean", + ) + if self.jepa_head is not None: + target_embeds = self.tok_emb(target_ids) + jepa_loss = self.jepa_head(x, target_embeds, self.jepa_pred_k) + return ce_loss + self.jepa_weight * jepa_loss + return ce_loss + + +def split_block_params_for_optim(model: GPT) -> tuple[list[Tensor], list[Tensor]]: + matrix_params: list[Tensor] = [] + scalar_params: list[Tensor] = [] + + for name, p in model.blocks.named_parameters(): + is_control = any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + if p.ndim == 2 and not is_control and not is_ssm_small_param(name): + matrix_params.append(p) + else: + scalar_params.append(p) + + if model.patch_encoder is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.patch_encoder.parameters())) + + if model.bigram_hash is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.bigram_hash.parameters())) + + if model.jepa_head is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.jepa_head.parameters())) + + if model.skip_weights.numel() > 0: + scalar_params.append(model.skip_weights) + + return matrix_params, scalar_params + + +class SWAHelper: + def __init__(self, start_step: int, every: int): + self.start_step = start_step + self.every = max(every, 1) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.avg_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step or (step % self.every) != 0: + return + if self.avg_params is None: + self.avg_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + self.num_updates += 1 + alpha = 1.0 / float(self.num_updates) + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.avg_params[name].add_(p.detach().float() - self.avg_params[name], alpha=alpha) + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.avg_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.avg_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.avg_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +class EMAHelper: + def __init__(self, decay: float, start_step: int = 0): + if not (0.0 < decay < 1.0): + raise ValueError(f"EMA decay must be in (0,1), got {decay}") + self.decay = decay + self.start_step = max(start_step, 0) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.shadow_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step: + return + + if self.shadow_params is None: + self.shadow_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + d = self.decay + one_minus = 1.0 - d + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.shadow_params[name].mul_(d).add_(p.detach().float(), alpha=one_minus) + self.num_updates += 1 + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.shadow_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.shadow_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.shadow_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +# ----------------------------- +# TRAINING +# ----------------------------- +def main() -> None: + code = Path(__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + args = Hyperparameters() + + args.block_pattern = "".join(args.block_pattern.split()).upper() + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in args.block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={args.block_pattern}; only S/A/G are allowed.") + + if args.num_layers != len(args.block_pattern): + if "BLOCK_PATTERN" in os.environ: + raise ValueError( + f"NUM_LAYERS={args.num_layers} must match len(BLOCK_PATTERN)={len(args.block_pattern)}" + ) + generated = ["S"] * args.num_layers + if args.num_layers > 0: + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, args.num_layers // 3)] = "A" + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, (2 * args.num_layers) // 3)] = "A" + args.block_pattern = "".join(generated) + + args.num_layers = len(args.block_pattern) + + if args.vocab_size <= 0 or args.vocab_size > 256: + raise ValueError(f"Byte-level VOCAB_SIZE must be in [1,256], got {args.vocab_size}") + if args.train_seq_len <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be positive, got {args.train_seq_len}") + if args.patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {args.patch_size}") + if args.byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {args.byte_embed_dim}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets < 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS must be non-negative, got {args.bigram_hash_buckets}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0 and args.bigram_hash_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_DIM must be positive when BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS>0, got {args.bigram_hash_dim}") + if args.jepa_pred_k < 0: + raise ValueError(f"JEPA_PRED_K must be non-negative, got {args.jepa_pred_k}") + if args.jepa_pred_k > 0 and args.patch_size != 1: + raise ValueError( + f"JEPA_PRED_K currently requires PATCH_SIZE=1 because JEPA targets are byte-aligned; got PATCH_SIZE={args.patch_size}" + ) + if args.jepa_pred_k > 0 and args.jepa_pred_k >= args.train_seq_len: + raise ValueError( + f"JEPA_PRED_K must be smaller than TRAIN_SEQ_LEN, got {args.jepa_pred_k} >= {args.train_seq_len}" + ) + if args.train_seq_len % args.patch_size != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be divisible by PATCH_SIZE for patch mode. " + f"Got TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}, PATCH_SIZE={args.patch_size}" + ) + if args.chunk_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"CHUNK_SIZE must be positive, got {args.chunk_size}") + + if args.use_compile: + globals()["zeropower_via_newtonschulz5"] = torch.compile(zeropower_via_newtonschulz5) + + # ----------------------------- + # DISTRIBUTED + CUDA SETUP + # ----------------------------- + distributed = "RANK" in os.environ and "WORLD_SIZE" in os.environ + rank = int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) + world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) + local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", "0")) + + if world_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE must be positive, got {world_size}") + if 8 % world_size != 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE={world_size} must divide 8 so grad_accum_steps stays integral") + + grad_accum_steps = 8 // world_size + grad_scale = 1.0 / grad_accum_steps + batch_divisor = world_size * grad_accum_steps + + if args.train_batch_tokens % batch_divisor != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={batch_divisor}, " + f"got {args.train_batch_tokens}" + ) + if (args.train_batch_tokens // batch_divisor) % args.train_seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + "Per-rank tokens per micro-step must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN for static shapes. " + f"Got train_batch_tokens={args.train_batch_tokens}, divisor={batch_divisor}, " + f"train_seq_len={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + if not torch.cuda.is_available(): + raise RuntimeError("CUDA is required") + device = torch.device("cuda", local_rank) + torch.cuda.set_device(device) + + if distributed: + dist.init_process_group(backend="nccl", device_id=device) + dist.barrier() + + master_process = rank == 0 + + torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True + torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True + from torch.backends.cuda import enable_cudnn_sdp, enable_flash_sdp, enable_math_sdp, enable_mem_efficient_sdp + + enable_cudnn_sdp(False) + enable_flash_sdp(True) + enable_mem_efficient_sdp(False) + enable_math_sdp(False) + + logfile = None + if master_process: + os.makedirs("logs", exist_ok=True) + logfile = f"logs/{args.run_id}.txt" + print(logfile) + + def log0(msg: str, console: bool = True) -> None: + if not master_process: + return + if console: + print(msg) + if logfile is not None: + with open(logfile, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f: + print(msg, file=f) + + log0(code, console=False) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + log0(f"Running Python {sys.version}", console=False) + log0(f"Running PyTorch {torch.__version__}", console=False) + log0( + subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=False).stdout, + console=False, + ) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + + # ----------------------------- + # SEEDING + DATA + # ----------------------------- + random.seed(args.seed) + np.random.seed(args.seed) + torch.manual_seed(args.seed) + torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(args.seed) + + dataset_dir = Path(args.data_path).resolve() + actual_train_files = len(list(dataset_dir.glob("fineweb_train_*.bin"))) + val_tokens = load_validation_tokens( + args.val_files, + args.train_seq_len, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + log0("val_bpb:enabled tokenizer_kind=bytes formula=loss/ln(2)") + log0(f"train_loader:dataset:{dataset_dir.name} train_shards:{actual_train_files}") + log0(f"val_loader:shards pattern={args.val_files} tokens:{val_tokens.numel() - 1}") + log0( + f"hybrid_blocks pattern:{args.block_pattern} " + f"num_layers:{len(args.block_pattern)} ssm_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('S')} " + f"attn_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('A')} gla_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('G')}" + ) + log0("mamba_backend:chunked_pure_pytorch") + log0( + f"byte_model vocab_size:{args.vocab_size} train_seq_len:{args.train_seq_len} " + f"train_batch_tokens:{args.train_batch_tokens} patch_size:{args.patch_size} " + f"byte_embed_dim:{args.byte_embed_dim}" + ) + log0( + f"mlp_mult:{args.mlp_mult} mlp_hidden:{args.mlp_hidden} " + f"smear_gate:{args.smear_gate} use_compile:{args.use_compile} " + f"use_swiglu:{args.use_swiglu} swiglu_hidden:{args.swiglu_hidden}" + ) + log0( + f"bigram_hash enabled:{args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0} " + f"buckets:{args.bigram_hash_buckets} dim:{args.bigram_hash_dim}" + ) + log0( + f"jepa enabled:{args.jepa_pred_k > 0} " + f"pred_k:{args.jepa_pred_k} weight:{args.jepa_weight}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # MODEL + OPTIMIZERS + # ----------------------------- + base_model = GPT( + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + block_pattern=args.block_pattern, + model_dim=args.model_dim, + num_heads=args.num_heads, + num_kv_heads=args.num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=args.mlp_hidden, + smear_gate=args.smear_gate, + tie_embeddings=args.tie_embeddings, + tied_embed_init_std=args.tied_embed_init_std, + logit_softcap=args.logit_softcap, + rope_base=args.rope_base, + qk_gain_init=args.qk_gain_init, + d_state=args.d_state, + d_conv=args.d_conv, + expand=args.expand, + headdim=args.headdim, + ngroups=args.ngroups, + chunk_size=args.chunk_size, + use_swiglu=args.use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=args.swiglu_hidden, + patch_size=args.patch_size, + byte_embed_dim=args.byte_embed_dim, + bigram_hash_buckets=args.bigram_hash_buckets, + bigram_hash_dim=args.bigram_hash_dim, + jepa_pred_k=args.jepa_pred_k, + jepa_weight=args.jepa_weight, + ).to(device).bfloat16() + + if args.patch_size > 1 and args.tie_embeddings and not base_model.tie_embeddings: + log0("byte_patch: tie_embeddings disabled because PATCH_SIZE>1 uses an explicit patch decoder.") + + for module in base_model.modules(): + if isinstance(module, CastedLinear): + module.float() + if isinstance(module, Rotary): + module.inv_freq.data = module.inv_freq.data.float() + restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(base_model) + + compiled_model = torch.compile(base_model, dynamic=False, fullgraph=True) if args.use_compile else base_model + model: nn.Module = DDP(compiled_model, device_ids=[local_rank], broadcast_buffers=False) if distributed else compiled_model + + matrix_params, scalar_params = split_block_params_for_optim(base_model) + if base_model.smear_gate is not None: + scalar_params.append(base_model.smear_gate.gate) + + token_lr = args.tied_embed_lr if base_model.tie_embeddings else args.embed_lr + + optimizer_tok = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.tok_emb.weight], "lr": token_lr, "base_lr": token_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizer_muon = Muon( + matrix_params, + lr=args.matrix_lr, + momentum=args.muon_momentum_warmup_start, + backend_steps=args.muon_backend_steps, + weight_decay=args.muon_weight_decay, + ) + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["base_lr"] = args.matrix_lr + + optimizer_scalar = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": scalar_params, "lr": args.scalar_lr, "base_lr": args.scalar_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + + optimizers: list[torch.optim.Optimizer] = [optimizer_tok, optimizer_muon, optimizer_scalar] + if base_model.lm_head is not None: + optimizer_head = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.lm_head.weight], "lr": args.head_lr, "base_lr": args.head_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizers.insert(1, optimizer_head) + + n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in base_model.parameters()) + matrix_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in matrix_params) + scalar_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in scalar_params) + + swa_start_step = max(int(args.iterations * (1.0 - args.swa_last_frac)), 0) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + log0(f"model_params:{n_params}") + log0(f"optimizer_split matrix_params:{matrix_param_count} scalar_params:{scalar_param_count}") + log0(f"world_size:{world_size} grad_accum_steps:{grad_accum_steps}") + log0("sdp_backends:cudnn=False flash=True mem_efficient=False math=False") + log0(f"attention_mode:gqa num_heads:{args.num_heads} num_kv_heads:{args.num_kv_heads}") + log0( + f"ssm_config d_state:{args.d_state} d_conv:{args.d_conv} expand:{args.expand} " + f"headdim:{args.headdim} ngroups:{args.ngroups} chunk_size:{args.chunk_size}" + ) + log0( + f"tie_embeddings:{base_model.tie_embeddings} embed_lr:{token_lr} " + f"head_lr:{args.head_lr if base_model.lm_head is not None else 0.0} " + f"matrix_lr:{args.matrix_lr} scalar_lr:{args.scalar_lr} " + f"muon_weight_decay:{args.muon_weight_decay}" + ) + log0( + f"muon_momentum_warmup start:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_start} " + f"target:{args.muon_momentum} steps:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps}" + ) + log0( + f"ema decay:{args.ema_decay} start_step:{args.ema_start_step} | " + f"swa every:{args.swa_every} last_frac:{args.swa_last_frac} start_step:{swa_start_step}" + ) + log0( + f"iterations:{args.iterations} warmup_steps:{args.warmup_steps} warmdown_iters:{args.warmdown_iters} " + f"max_wallclock_seconds:{args.max_wallclock_seconds:.3f}" + ) + log0( + f"val_sliding stride:{args.val_sliding_stride} every:{args.val_sliding_every} " + f"max_tokens:{args.val_sliding_max_tokens}" + ) + log0(f"seed:{args.seed}") + + # ----------------------------- + # DATA + SCHEDULE HELPERS + # ----------------------------- + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + def zero_grad_all() -> None: + for opt in optimizers: + opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) + + max_wallclock_ms = 1000.0 * args.max_wallclock_seconds if args.max_wallclock_seconds > 0 else None + + def lr_mul(step: int, elapsed_ms: float) -> float: + if args.warmdown_iters <= 0: + return 1.0 + if max_wallclock_ms is None: + warmdown_start = max(args.iterations - args.warmdown_iters, 0) + if step < warmdown_start: + return 1.0 + return max((args.iterations - step) / max(args.warmdown_iters, 1), 0.0) + + step_ms = elapsed_ms / max(step, 1) + warmdown_ms = args.warmdown_iters * step_ms + remaining_ms = max(max_wallclock_ms - elapsed_ms, 0.0) + return remaining_ms / max(warmdown_ms, 1e-9) if remaining_ms <= warmdown_ms else 1.0 + + # ----------------------------- + # WARMUP (compile path priming) + # ----------------------------- + if args.warmup_steps > 0: + initial_model_state = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + initial_optimizer_states = [copy.deepcopy(opt.state_dict()) for opt in optimizers] + + model.train() + for warmup_step in range(args.warmup_steps): + zero_grad_all() + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + warmup_loss = model(x, y) + (warmup_loss * grad_scale).backward() + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + if args.warmup_steps <= 20 or (warmup_step + 1) % 10 == 0 or warmup_step + 1 == args.warmup_steps: + log0(f"warmup_step:{warmup_step + 1}/{args.warmup_steps}") + + base_model.load_state_dict(initial_model_state, strict=True) + for opt, state in zip(optimizers, initial_optimizer_states, strict=True): + opt.load_state_dict(state) + zero_grad_all() + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = True + + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + # ----------------------------- + # MAIN LOOP + # ----------------------------- + training_time_ms = 0.0 + stop_after_step: int | None = None + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + step = 0 + while True: + last_step = step == args.iterations or (stop_after_step is not None and step >= stop_after_step) + + should_validate = last_step or (args.val_loss_every > 0 and step % args.val_loss_every == 0) + if should_validate: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + training_time_ms += 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + + val_loss, val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + + msg = ( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} val_loss:{val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{val_bpb:.4f} " + f"train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{training_time_ms / max(step, 1):.2f}ms" + ) + + should_validate_sliding = args.val_sliding_stride > 0 and ( + last_step or (args.val_sliding_every > 0 and step % args.val_sliding_every == 0) + ) + if should_validate_sliding: + s_val_loss, s_val_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + msg += f" sliding_loss:{s_val_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_val_bpb:.4f}" + + log0(msg) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + if last_step: + if stop_after_step is not None and step < args.iterations: + log0( + f"stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms " + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations}" + ) + break + + elapsed_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + scale = lr_mul(step, elapsed_ms) + + zero_grad_all() + train_loss = torch.zeros((), device=device) + + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + loss = model(x, y) + train_loss += loss.detach() + (loss * grad_scale).backward() + + train_loss /= grad_accum_steps + + frac = min(step / args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps, 1.0) if args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps > 0 else 1.0 + muon_momentum = (1.0 - frac) * args.muon_momentum_warmup_start + frac * args.muon_momentum + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["momentum"] = muon_momentum + + for opt in optimizers: + for group in opt.param_groups: + group["lr"] = group["base_lr"] * scale + + if args.grad_clip_norm > 0: + torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(base_model.parameters(), args.grad_clip_norm) + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + step += 1 + ema_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + swa_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + + approx_training_time_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + should_log_train = ( + args.train_log_every > 0 and (step <= 10 or step % args.train_log_every == 0 or stop_after_step is not None) + ) + if should_log_train: + log0( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} train_loss:{train_loss.item():.4f} " + f"train_time:{approx_training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{approx_training_time_ms / step:.2f}ms " + f"lr_scale:{scale:.4f} muon_momentum:{muon_momentum:.4f} " + f"ema_updates:{ema_helper.num_updates} swa_updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}" + ) + + reached_cap = max_wallclock_ms is not None and approx_training_time_ms >= max_wallclock_ms + if distributed and max_wallclock_ms is not None: + reached_cap_tensor = torch.tensor(int(reached_cap), device=device) + dist.all_reduce(reached_cap_tensor, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX) + reached_cap = bool(reached_cap_tensor.item()) + if stop_after_step is None and reached_cap: + stop_after_step = step + + log0( + f"peak memory allocated: {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() // 1024 // 1024} MiB " + f"reserved: {torch.cuda.max_memory_reserved() // 1024 // 1024} MiB" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # FINAL SNAPSHOT SELECTION: BASE vs EMA vs SWA + # ----------------------------- + def eval_snapshot(tag: str) -> tuple[float, float]: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_eval = time.perf_counter() + snap_loss, snap_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + + msg = ( + f"{tag} val_loss:{snap_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{snap_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_eval):.0f}ms" + ) + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_slide = time.perf_counter() + s_loss, s_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + msg += ( + f" sliding_loss:{s_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_bpb:.4f} " + f"sliding_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_slide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(msg) + return snap_loss, snap_bpb + + base_state_cpu = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + candidate_results: dict[str, tuple[float, float]] = {} + + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + candidate_results["base"] = eval_snapshot("post_train_base") + + if ema_helper.has_state(): + ema_helper.apply_to(base_model) + candidate_results["ema"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_ema decay:{args.ema_decay:.6f}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_ema skipped:no_updates") + + if swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + candidate_results["swa"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_swa updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_swa skipped:no_updates") + + variant_to_index = {"base": 0, "ema": 1, "swa": 2} + index_to_variant = {0: "base", 1: "ema", 2: "swa"} + + if master_process: + best_variant = min(candidate_results.items(), key=lambda item: item[1][1])[0] + best_idx = variant_to_index[best_variant] + else: + best_idx = 0 + + best_idx_tensor = torch.tensor(best_idx, device=device, dtype=torch.int64) + if distributed: + dist.broadcast(best_idx_tensor, src=0) + best_variant = index_to_variant[int(best_idx_tensor.item())] + + if best_variant == "base": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + elif best_variant == "ema": + if not ema_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected EMA weights but EMA state is unavailable.") + elif best_variant == "swa": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + if not swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected SWA weights but SWA state is unavailable.") + else: + raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown best variant: {best_variant}") + + if master_process: + best_loss, best_bpb = candidate_results[best_variant] + log0( + f"selected_final_weights:{best_variant} " + f"val_loss:{best_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{best_bpb:.4f}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # SERIALIZE + ROUNDTRIP EVAL + # ----------------------------- + if master_process: + save_state = state_dict_for_serialization(base_model.state_dict()) + torch.save(save_state, "final_model.pt") + model_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.pt") + code_bytes = len(code.encode("utf-8")) + log0(f"Serialized model fp32/bf16: {model_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Code size: {code_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Total submission size raw: {model_bytes + code_bytes} bytes") + + quant_obj, quant_stats = quantize_state_dict_int6( + save_state, + tie_embeddings=base_model.tie_embeddings, + ) + quant_buf = io.BytesIO() + torch.save(quant_obj, quant_buf) + quant_raw = quant_buf.getvalue() + quant_blob, codec = compress_payload(quant_raw) + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "wb") as f: + f.write(quant_blob) + + quant_file_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.int6.ptz") + ratio = quant_stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] / max(quant_stats["int6_payload_bytes"], 1) + total_submission = quant_file_bytes + code_bytes + limit_bytes = 16 * 1024 * 1024 + + log0( + f"Serialized model int6+{codec}: {quant_file_bytes} bytes " + f"(payload:{quant_stats['int6_payload_bytes']} raw_torch:{len(quant_raw)} payload_ratio:{ratio:.2f}x)" + ) + log0(f"Total submission size int6+{codec}: {total_submission} bytes") + log0(f"submission_limit_16mb:{total_submission <= limit_bytes} limit_bytes:{limit_bytes}") + + if distributed: + dist.barrier() + + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "rb") as f: + quant_blob_disk = f.read() + quant_state = torch.load(io.BytesIO(decompress_payload(quant_blob_disk)), map_location="cpu") + roundtrip_state = dequantize_state_dict_int6(quant_state) + incompatible = base_model.load_state_dict(roundtrip_state, strict=False) + disallowed_missing = [ + name + for name in incompatible.missing_keys + if not name.startswith(SERIALIZATION_EXCLUDED_PREFIXES) + ] + if disallowed_missing or incompatible.unexpected_keys: + raise RuntimeError( + "Serialized roundtrip state dict mismatch: " + f"missing={disallowed_missing} unexpected={incompatible.unexpected_keys}" + ) + + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qeval = time.perf_counter() + q_val_loss, q_val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:{q_val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qeval):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(f"final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:{q_val_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.8f}") + + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qslide = time.perf_counter() + q_slide_loss, q_slide_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qslide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.8f}" + ) + + if distributed: + dist.destroy_process_group() + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() \ No 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diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_jepa_k4_w01.txt b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_jepa_k4_w01.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d316993a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_jepa_k4_w01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +W0325 11:26:54.383000 47912 torch/distributed/run.py:851] +W0325 11:26:54.383000 47912 torch/distributed/run.py:851] ***************************************** +W0325 11:26:54.383000 47912 torch/distributed/run.py:851] Setting OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable for each process to be 1 in default, to avoid your system being overloaded, please further tune the variable for optimal performance in your application as needed. +W0325 11:26:54.383000 47912 torch/distributed/run.py:851] ***************************************** +logs/0ca6215e-8ad4-45d0-92ac-7b9caf27553f.txt +val_bpb:enabled tokenizer_kind=bytes 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+muon_momentum_warmup start:0.92 target:0.99 steps:2500 +ema decay:0.997 start_step:0 | swa every:50 last_frac:0.5 start_step:10000 +iterations:20000 warmup_steps:10 warmdown_iters:3500 max_wallclock_seconds:600.000 +val_sliding stride:512 every:0 max_tokens:10000000 +seed:1337 +warmup_step:1/10 +warmup_step:2/10 +warmup_step:3/10 +warmup_step:4/10 +warmup_step:5/10 +warmup_step:6/10 +warmup_step:7/10 +warmup_step:8/10 +warmup_step:9/10 +warmup_step:10/10 +step:1/20000 train_loss:5.5220 train_time:543ms step_avg:543.06ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:1 swa_updates:0 +step:2/20000 train_loss:10.8673 train_time:635ms step_avg:317.28ms lr_scale:0.3126 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:2 swa_updates:0 +step:3/20000 train_loss:6.9958 train_time:720ms step_avg:239.96ms lr_scale:0.5363 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:3 swa_updates:0 +step:4/20000 train_loss:5.4575 train_time:805ms step_avg:201.20ms lr_scale:0.7094 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:4 swa_updates:0 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12167 MiB reserved: 13034 MiB +post_train_base val_loss:0.8679 val_bpb:1.2521 eval_time:17264ms sliding_loss:0.8569 sliding_bpb:1.2363 sliding_time:22179ms +post_train_ema decay:0.997000 val_loss:0.8675 val_bpb:1.2516 eval_time:17259ms sliding_loss:0.8565 sliding_bpb:1.2357 sliding_time:22061ms +post_train_swa skipped:no_updates +selected_final_weights:ema val_loss:0.8675 val_bpb:1.2516 +Serialized model fp32/bf16: 110068261 bytes +Code size: 76884 bytes +Total submission size raw: 110145145 bytes +Serialized model int6+zstd22: 14716865 bytes (payload:27973840 raw_torch:28040853 payload_ratio:3.93x) +Total submission size int6+zstd22: 14793749 bytes +submission_limit_16mb:True limit_bytes:16777216 +final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:0.8697 val_bpb:1.2547 eval_time:17288ms +final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:0.86971094 val_bpb:1.25472766 +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:0.8588 val_bpb:1.2390 eval_time:22329ms +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:0.85877541 val_bpb:1.23895102 diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed1337.txt b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed1337.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4426b4be8 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed1337.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2016 @@ +from __future__ import annotations + +import copy +import glob +import io +import math +import os +import random +import subprocess +import sys +import time +import uuid +import zlib +from pathlib import Path + +import numpy as np +import torch +import torch.distributed as dist +import torch.nn.functional as F +from torch import Tensor, nn +from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP + +_THIS_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent +for _extra in (_THIS_DIR, _THIS_DIR.parent / "kernel_optimized"): + if _extra.exists(): + _extra_str = str(_extra) + if _extra_str not in sys.path: + sys.path.insert(0, _extra_str) + +try: + from chunked_mamba2 import ChunkedPureMamba2 + from chunked_gla import GatedLinearAttentionKernel +except Exception as exc: + raise ImportError( + "Could not import chunked_mamba2/chunked_gla. Ensure these files are available " + "in this directory, ../kernel_optimized, or on PYTHONPATH." + ) from exc + +try: + import zstandard as zstd +except Exception: + zstd = None + + +# ----------------------------- +# HYPERPARAMETERS +# ----------------------------- +class Hyperparameters: + # Data. + data_path = os.environ.get("DATA_PATH", "./data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes") + train_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_train_*.bin") + val_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_val_*.bin") + run_id = os.environ.get("RUN_ID", str(uuid.uuid4())) + seed = int(os.environ.get("SEED", 1337)) + check_shard_vocab_range = bool(int(os.environ.get("CHECK_SHARD_VOCAB_RANGE", "1"))) + + # Validation / logging cadence. + val_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("VAL_BATCH_SIZE", 524_288)) + val_loss_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_LOSS_EVERY", 1000)) + val_sliding_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_EVERY", 0)) + val_sliding_stride = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE", 0)) + val_sliding_max_tokens = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS", 0)) + train_log_every = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_LOG_EVERY", 200)) + + # Training length / wallclock. + iterations = int(os.environ.get("ITERATIONS", 20_000)) + warmdown_iters = int(os.environ.get("WARMDOWN_ITERS", 3000)) + warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("WARMUP_STEPS", 20)) + train_batch_tokens = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS", 524_288)) + train_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_SEQ_LEN", 4096)) + max_wallclock_seconds = float(os.environ.get("MAX_WALLCLOCK_SECONDS", 600.0)) + qk_gain_init = float(os.environ.get("QK_GAIN_INIT", 1.5)) + + # Architecture. + vocab_size = int(os.environ.get("VOCAB_SIZE", 256)) + block_pattern = os.environ.get("BLOCK_PATTERN", "SSSASSSSAS").upper() + num_layers = int(os.environ.get("NUM_LAYERS", str(len(block_pattern)))) + num_kv_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_KV_HEADS", 4)) + model_dim = int(os.environ.get("MODEL_DIM", 512)) + patch_size = int(os.environ.get("PATCH_SIZE", "1")) + _default_byte_embed_dim = 128 if patch_size > 1 else model_dim + byte_embed_dim = int(os.environ.get("BYTE_EMBED_DIM", str(_default_byte_embed_dim))) + num_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_HEADS", 8)) + mlp_mult = int(os.environ.get("MLP_MULT", 2)) + _default_mlp_hidden = mlp_mult * model_dim + mlp_hidden = int(os.environ.get("MLP_HIDDEN", str(_default_mlp_hidden))) + smear_gate = bool(int(os.environ.get("SMEAR_GATE", "1"))) + bigram_hash_buckets = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS", "0")) + bigram_hash_dim = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_DIM", "64")) + use_swiglu = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_SWIGLU", "0"))) + _default_swiglu_hidden = ((_default_mlp_hidden * 2 // 3) + 63) // 64 * 64 + swiglu_hidden = int(os.environ.get("SWIGLU_HIDDEN", str(_default_swiglu_hidden))) + tie_embeddings = bool(int(os.environ.get("TIE_EMBEDDINGS", "1"))) + rope_base = float(os.environ.get("ROPE_BASE", 10000.0)) + logit_softcap = float(os.environ.get("LOGIT_SOFTCAP", 30.0)) + tied_embed_init_std = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_INIT_STD", 0.005)) + + # SSM / chunking. + d_state = int(os.environ.get("D_STATE", 64)) + d_conv = int(os.environ.get("D_CONV", 4)) + expand = int(os.environ.get("EXPAND", 1)) + headdim = int(os.environ.get("HEADDIM", 64)) + ngroups = int(os.environ.get("NGROUPS", 1)) + chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("CHUNK_SIZE", 64)) + + # Optimizer. + embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("EMBED_LR", 0.6)) + head_lr = float(os.environ.get("HEAD_LR", 0.008)) + tied_embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_LR", 0.05)) + matrix_lr = float(os.environ.get("MATRIX_LR", 0.04)) + scalar_lr = float(os.environ.get("SCALAR_LR", 0.04)) + muon_momentum = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM", 0.99)) + muon_momentum_warmup_start = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_START", 0.92)) + muon_momentum_warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_STEPS", 1500)) + muon_backend_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_BACKEND_STEPS", 5)) + muon_weight_decay = float(os.environ.get("MUON_WEIGHT_DECAY", 0.04)) + beta1 = float(os.environ.get("BETA1", 0.9)) + beta2 = float(os.environ.get("BETA2", 0.95)) + adam_eps = float(os.environ.get("ADAM_EPS", 1e-8)) + grad_clip_norm = float(os.environ.get("GRAD_CLIP_NORM", 0.3)) + use_compile = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_COMPILE", "1"))) + + # EMA / SWA. + ema_decay = float(os.environ.get("EMA_DECAY", 0.997)) + ema_start_step = int(os.environ.get("EMA_START_STEP", 0)) + swa_every = int(os.environ.get("SWA_EVERY", 50)) + swa_last_frac = float(os.environ.get("SWA_LAST_FRAC", 0.4)) + + # Kept for backward compatibility with baseline envs. + ttt_lora_rank = int(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_RANK", 8)) + ttt_lora_lr = float(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_LR", 0.01)) + ttt_chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_CHUNK_SIZE", 256)) + ttt_eval_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TTT_EVAL_SEQ_LEN", 1024)) + ttt_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_BATCH_SIZE", 64)) + + +CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS", + "mixer_scale,attn_scale,mlp_scale,resid_mix,q_gain,skip_weight,skip_weights,smear,bigram", + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS", + ",".join(CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS), + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL = int(os.environ.get("INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL", 65_536)) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE = float(os.environ.get("INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE", 99.99984)) +INT6_CLIP_Q = INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE / 100.0 +INT6_MAX_Q = 31 + + +def is_ssm_small_param(name: str) -> bool: + return any(p in name for p in ("A_log", "dt_bias", "conv_weight", "conv_bias", ".D", ".norm")) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MUON OPTIMIZER +# ----------------------------- +def zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(G: Tensor, steps: int = 10, eps: float = 1e-7) -> Tensor: + a, b, c = (3.4445, -4.7750, 2.0315) + X = G.bfloat16() + X /= X.norm() + eps + transposed = G.size(0) > G.size(1) + if transposed: + X = X.T + for _ in range(steps): + A = X @ X.T + B = b * A + c * A @ A + X = a * X + B @ X + return X.T if transposed else X + + +class Muon(torch.optim.Optimizer): + def __init__( + self, + params, + lr: float, + momentum: float, + backend_steps: int, + weight_decay: float = 0.0, + nesterov: bool = True, + ): + super().__init__( + params, + dict( + lr=lr, + momentum=momentum, + backend_steps=backend_steps, + weight_decay=weight_decay, + nesterov=nesterov, + ), + ) + + @torch.no_grad() + def step(self, closure=None): + loss = None + if closure is not None: + with torch.enable_grad(): + loss = closure() + + distributed = dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized() + world_size = dist.get_world_size() if distributed else 1 + rank = dist.get_rank() if distributed else 0 + + for group in self.param_groups: + params = group["params"] + if not params: + continue + lr = group["lr"] + momentum = group["momentum"] + backend_steps = group["backend_steps"] + weight_decay = group["weight_decay"] + nesterov = group["nesterov"] + + total_params = sum(int(p.numel()) for p in params) + updates_flat = torch.zeros(total_params, device=params[0].device, dtype=torch.bfloat16) + + curr = 0 + for i, p in enumerate(params): + if i % world_size == rank and p.grad is not None: + g = p.grad + state = self.state[p] + if "momentum_buffer" not in state: + state["momentum_buffer"] = torch.zeros_like(g) + buf = state["momentum_buffer"] + buf.mul_(momentum).add_(g) + if nesterov: + g = g.add(buf, alpha=momentum) + g = zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(g, steps=backend_steps) + g *= max(1, g.size(0) / g.size(1)) ** 0.5 + updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()] = g.reshape(-1) + curr += p.numel() + + if distributed: + dist.all_reduce(updates_flat, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + curr = 0 + decay_mul = 1.0 - lr * weight_decay + for p in params: + if weight_decay != 0.0: + p.mul_(decay_mul) + g = updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()].view_as(p).to(dtype=p.dtype) + p.add_(g, alpha=-lr) + curr += p.numel() + + return loss + + +# ----------------------------- +# DATA LOADING +# ----------------------------- +def load_data_shard(file: Path, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True) -> Tensor: + header_bytes = 256 * np.dtype("= vocab_size: + raise ValueError( + f"Shard contains token id >= vocab_size for {file}: max_id={max_id}, vocab_size={vocab_size}" + ) + + return torch.from_numpy(tokens_np.astype(np.uint16, copy=False)) + + +def load_validation_tokens( + pattern: str, + seq_len: int, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, +) -> Tensor: + files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + tokens = torch.cat( + [load_data_shard(file, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) for file in files] + ).contiguous() + usable = ((tokens.numel() - 1) // seq_len) * seq_len + if usable <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"Validation split is too short for TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={seq_len}") + return tokens[: usable + 1] + + +class TokenStream: + def __init__(self, pattern: str, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True): + self.files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not self.files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.check_vocab_range = check_vocab_range + self.file_idx = 0 + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[0], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def _advance_file(self) -> None: + self.file_idx = (self.file_idx + 1) % len(self.files) + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[self.file_idx], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def take(self, n: int) -> Tensor: + chunks: list[Tensor] = [] + remaining = n + while remaining > 0: + avail = self.tokens.numel() - self.pos + if avail <= 0: + self._advance_file() + continue + k = min(remaining, avail) + chunks.append(self.tokens[self.pos : self.pos + k]) + self.pos += k + remaining -= k + return chunks[0] if len(chunks) == 1 else torch.cat(chunks) + + +class DistributedTokenLoader: + def __init__( + self, + pattern: str, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, + ): + self.rank = rank + self.world_size = world_size + self.device = device + self.stream = TokenStream(pattern, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) + + def next_batch(self, global_tokens: int, seq_len: int, grad_accum_steps: int) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + denom = self.world_size * grad_accum_steps + if global_tokens % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS: " + f"{global_tokens} % {denom} != 0" + ) + local_tokens = global_tokens // denom + if local_tokens % seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"Per-rank tokens must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN. " + f"Got local_tokens={local_tokens}, seq_len={seq_len}" + ) + + per_rank_span = local_tokens + 1 + chunk = self.stream.take(per_rank_span * self.world_size) + start = self.rank * per_rank_span + local = chunk[start : start + per_rank_span].to(dtype=torch.int64) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, seq_len) + return x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True), y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True) + + +# ----------------------------- +# EVALUATION (BYTE-LEVEL BPB) +# ----------------------------- +def eval_val( + args: Hyperparameters, + model: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + grad_accum_steps: int, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + denom = world_size * grad_accum_steps + if args.val_batch_size % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"VAL_BATCH_SIZE must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS. " + f"Got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, denom={denom}" + ) + local_batch_tokens = args.val_batch_size // denom + if local_batch_tokens < args.train_seq_len: + raise ValueError( + "VAL_BATCH_SIZE must provide at least one sequence per rank; " + f"got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, WORLD_SIZE={world_size}, " + f"GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={grad_accum_steps}, TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + local_batch_seqs = local_batch_tokens // args.train_seq_len + total_seqs = (val_tokens.numel() - 1) // args.train_seq_len + seq_start = (total_seqs * rank) // world_size + seq_end = (total_seqs * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + for batch_seq_start in range(seq_start, seq_end, local_batch_seqs): + batch_seq_end = min(batch_seq_start + local_batch_seqs, seq_end) + raw_start = batch_seq_start * args.train_seq_len + raw_end = batch_seq_end * args.train_seq_len + 1 + + local = val_tokens[raw_start:raw_end].to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + batch_loss = model(x, y).detach() + + batch_token_count = float(y.numel()) + val_loss_sum += batch_loss.to(torch.float64) * batch_token_count + val_token_count += batch_token_count + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = val_loss_sum / val_token_count + # Byte-level BPB is direct: nats/byte divided by ln(2). + val_bpb = val_loss.item() / math.log(2.0) + model.train() + return float(val_loss.item()), float(val_bpb) + + +def eval_val_sliding( + args: Hyperparameters, + model_for_logits: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + stride = max(1, min(args.val_sliding_stride, args.train_seq_len)) + total_targets = val_tokens.numel() - 1 + start = (total_targets * rank) // world_size + end = (total_targets * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + local = val_tokens[start : end + 1] + if args.val_sliding_max_tokens > 0: + max_local_targets = max(args.val_sliding_max_tokens // max(world_size, 1), args.train_seq_len) + local = local[: min(local.numel(), max_local_targets + 1)] + if local.numel() < 2: + raise ValueError("Not enough validation tokens for sliding-window evaluation on this rank.") + + local = local.to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + local_targets = local.numel() - 1 + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model_for_logits.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + scored_upto = 0 + for window_start in range(0, local_targets, stride): + window_end = min(window_start + args.train_seq_len, local_targets) + x = local[window_start:window_end].unsqueeze(0) + y = local[window_start + 1 : window_end + 1] + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + logits = model_for_logits.forward_logits(x) + + window_target_start = window_start + 1 + window_target_end = window_end + score_start = max(window_target_start, scored_upto + 1) + if score_start > window_target_end: + continue + + offset = score_start - window_target_start + n_tokens = window_target_end - score_start + 1 + logits_slice = logits[:, offset : offset + n_tokens, :] + y_slice = y[offset : offset + n_tokens] + + val_loss_sum += F.cross_entropy( + logits_slice.float().reshape(-1, logits_slice.size(-1)), + y_slice.reshape(-1), + reduction="sum", + ).to(torch.float64) + val_token_count += float(n_tokens) + scored_upto = window_target_end + + if scored_upto < local_targets: + raise RuntimeError( + f"Sliding eval failed to score all tokens on rank {rank}: scored={scored_upto}, total={local_targets}" + ) + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = float((val_loss_sum / val_token_count).item()) + val_bpb = float(val_loss / math.log(2.0)) + model_for_logits.train() + return val_loss, val_bpb + + +# ----------------------------- +# INT6 + ZSTD EXPORT +# ----------------------------- +def tensor_nbytes(t: Tensor) -> int: + return int(t.numel()) * int(t.element_size()) + + +def keep_float_tensor(name: str, t: Tensor, passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str]) -> Tensor: + if t.dtype in {torch.float32, torch.bfloat16}: + passthrough_orig_dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + return t.to(dtype=INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE).contiguous() + return t.contiguous() + + +def quantize_float_tensor_int6(t: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t32 = t.float() + if t32.ndim == 2: + clip_abs = ( + torch.quantile(t32.abs(), INT6_CLIP_Q, dim=1) + if t32.numel() + else torch.empty((t32.shape[0],), dtype=torch.float32) + ) + clipped = torch.maximum(torch.minimum(t32, clip_abs[:, None]), -clip_abs[:, None]) + scale = (clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q)).clamp_min(1.0 / float(INT6_MAX_Q)) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(clipped / scale[:, None]), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q).to(torch.int8).contiguous() + return q, scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + clip_abs = float(torch.quantile(t32.abs().flatten(), INT6_CLIP_Q).item()) if t32.numel() else 0.0 + scale = torch.tensor(clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q) if clip_abs > 0.0 else 1.0, dtype=torch.float32) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(torch.clamp(t32, -clip_abs, clip_abs) / scale), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q) + return q.to(torch.int8).contiguous(), scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + +def quantize_state_dict_int6(state_dict: dict[str, Tensor], tie_embeddings: bool): + quantized: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + scales: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + passthrough: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + qmeta: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = {} + stats = dict.fromkeys( + ( + "param_count", + "num_tensors", + "num_float_tensors", + "num_nonfloat_tensors", + "baseline_tensor_bytes", + "int6_payload_bytes", + ), + 0, + ) + + for name, tensor in state_dict.items(): + t = tensor.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + stats["param_count"] += int(t.numel()) + stats["num_tensors"] += 1 + stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + + if not t.is_floating_point(): + stats["num_nonfloat_tensors"] += 1 + passthrough[name] = t + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + continue + + if tie_embeddings and name == "tok_emb.weight": + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + if t.numel() <= INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL or any( + pattern in name for pattern in INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS + ): + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + stats["num_float_tensors"] += 1 + q, s = quantize_float_tensor_int6(t) + if t.ndim == 2: + qmeta[name] = {"scheme": "per_row", "axis": 0} + quantized[name] = q + scales[name] = s + dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(q) + tensor_nbytes(s) + + obj: dict[str, object] = { + "__quant_format__": "int6_clean_per_row_v1", + "quantized": quantized, + "scales": scales, + "dtypes": dtypes, + "passthrough": passthrough, + } + if qmeta: + obj["qmeta"] = qmeta + if passthrough_orig_dtypes: + obj["passthrough_orig_dtypes"] = passthrough_orig_dtypes + return obj, stats + + +def dequantize_state_dict_int6(obj: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, Tensor]: + out: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + qmeta = obj.get("qmeta", {}) + passthrough_orig_dtypes = obj.get("passthrough_orig_dtypes", {}) + + for name, q in obj["quantized"].items(): + dtype = getattr(torch, obj["dtypes"][name]) + s = obj["scales"][name] + if qmeta.get(name, {}).get("scheme") == "per_row" or s.ndim > 0: + s32 = s.to(dtype=torch.float32) + out[name] = (q.float() * s32.view(q.shape[0], *([1] * (q.ndim - 1)))).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + else: + out[name] = (q.float() * float(s.item())).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + + for name, t in obj["passthrough"].items(): + out_t = t.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + orig_dtype = passthrough_orig_dtypes.get(name) + if isinstance(orig_dtype, str): + out_t = out_t.to(dtype=getattr(torch, orig_dtype)).contiguous() + out[name] = out_t + + return out + + +def compress_payload(raw: bytes) -> tuple[bytes, str]: + if zstd is not None: + cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(level=22) + return b"ZST0" + cctx.compress(raw), "zstd22" + return b"ZLB0" + zlib.compress(raw, level=9), "zlib9" + + +def decompress_payload(blob: bytes) -> bytes: + if blob.startswith(b"ZST0"): + if zstd is None: + raise RuntimeError("Payload uses zstd but zstandard is not installed.") + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob[4:]) + if blob.startswith(b"ZLB0"): + return zlib.decompress(blob[4:]) + if zstd is not None: + try: + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob) + except Exception: + pass + return zlib.decompress(blob) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MODEL +# ----------------------------- +class RMSNorm(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, eps: float | None = None): + super().__init__() + self.eps = eps + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),), eps=self.eps) + + +class CastedLinear(nn.Linear): + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bias = self.bias.to(x.dtype) if self.bias is not None else None + return F.linear(x, self.weight.to(x.dtype), bias) + + +def restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(module: nn.Module) -> None: + with torch.no_grad(): + for name, param in module.named_parameters(): + if param.dtype == torch.float32: + continue + if ( + param.ndim < 2 + or any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + or is_ssm_small_param(name) + ): + param.data = param.data.float() + + +class Rotary(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, base: float = 10000.0): + super().__init__() + inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim)) + self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False) + + def forward(self, seq_len: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=self.inv_freq.dtype) + freqs = torch.outer(t, self.inv_freq.to(device)) + cos = freqs.cos()[None, None, :, :] + sin = freqs.sin()[None, None, :, :] + return cos.to(dtype=dtype), sin.to(dtype=dtype) + + +def apply_rotary_emb(x: Tensor, cos: Tensor, sin: Tensor) -> Tensor: + half = x.size(-1) // 2 + x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:] + return torch.cat((x1 * cos + x2 * sin, x1 * (-sin) + x2 * cos), dim=-1) + + +class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + ): + super().__init__() + if dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("model_dim must be divisible by num_heads") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("num_heads must be divisible by num_kv_heads") + self.num_heads = num_heads + self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads + self.head_dim = dim // num_heads + if self.head_dim % 2 != 0: + raise ValueError("head_dim must be even for RoPE") + + kv_dim = self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim + self.c_q = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.c_k = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.c_v = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + self.q_gain = nn.Parameter(torch.full((num_heads,), qk_gain_init, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.rotary = Rotary(self.head_dim, base=rope_base) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bsz, seqlen, dim = x.shape + q = self.c_q(x) + k = self.c_k(x) + v = self.c_v(x) + + q = q.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + k = k.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + v = v.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + + q = F.rms_norm(q, (q.size(-1),)) + k = F.rms_norm(k, (k.size(-1),)) + cos, sin = self.rotary(seqlen, x.device, q.dtype) + q = apply_rotary_emb(q, cos, sin) + k = apply_rotary_emb(k, cos, sin) + q = q * self.q_gain.to(dtype=q.dtype)[None, :, None, None] + + y = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( + q, + k, + v, + attn_mask=None, + is_causal=True, + enable_gqa=(self.num_kv_heads != self.num_heads), + ) + y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().reshape(bsz, seqlen, dim) + return self.proj(y) + + +class MLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.fc = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x = F.leaky_relu(self.fc(x), negative_slope=0.5) + return self.proj(x.square()) + + +class SwiGLUMLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.up_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.down_proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.down_proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.down_proj(F.silu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)) + + +class SmearGate(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + g = torch.sigmoid(self.gate.to(dtype=x.dtype))[None, None, :] + x_prev = F.pad(x[:, :-1, :], (0, 0, 1, 0)) + return x + g * (x_prev - x) + + +class ByteBigramHash(nn.Module): + """Hashed byte-bigram embeddings. Maps consecutive byte pairs to embedding buckets.""" + + def __init__(self, num_buckets: int, embed_dim: int, model_dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.num_buckets = num_buckets + self.embed = nn.Embedding(num_buckets, embed_dim) + self.proj = CastedLinear(embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) if embed_dim != model_dim else nn.Identity() + nn.init.normal_(self.embed.weight, std=0.01) + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + prev = F.pad(input_ids[:, :-1], (1, 0), value=0) + bigram_ids = (prev * 256 + input_ids) % self.num_buckets + emb = self.embed(bigram_ids) + return self.proj(emb) + + +class IntraPatchDecoder(nn.Module): + """Causal intra-patch decoder: predicts bytes within each patch autoregressively. + + Uses a depthwise causal convolution to mix intra-patch byte context cheaply. + Each byte k's prediction depends on the patch latent + actual bytes 0..k-1. + """ + def __init__(self, model_dim: int, byte_embed_dim: int, patch_size: int, vocab_size: int): + super().__init__() + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.proj = CastedLinear(byte_embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) + # Depthwise causal conv to mix intra-patch context + self.conv = nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=model_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=patch_size, + padding=patch_size - 1, + groups=model_dim, + bias=False, + ) + self.norm = RMSNorm() + self.lm_head = CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + + def forward(self, latents: Tensor, input_ids: Tensor, tok_emb: nn.Embedding) -> Tensor: + B, n_patches, D = latents.shape + # 1. Fetch local byte embeddings (teacher forcing) + byte_embs = tok_emb(input_ids).view(B, n_patches, self.patch_size, -1) + # 2. Project byte features and add to global patch latent + h = latents.unsqueeze(2) + self.proj(byte_embs) + # 3. Apply causal depthwise convolution within each patch + h = h.view(B * n_patches, self.patch_size, D).transpose(1, 2) + h = self.conv(h)[..., :self.patch_size] # causal: slice off right padding + # 4. Back to flat sequence + h = h.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, n_patches * self.patch_size, D) + h = self.norm(h) + return self.lm_head(h) + + +class SSMBlock(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + d_state: int = 64, + d_conv: int = 4, + expand: int = 1, + headdim: int = 64, + ngroups: int = 1, + chunk_size: int = 64, + **kwargs, + ): + super().__init__() + self.mamba = ChunkedPureMamba2( + d_model=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.mamba(x) + + +class HybridLayer(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + block_type: str, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + ): + super().__init__() + self.block_type = block_type + self.mixer_norm = RMSNorm() + self.mlp_norm = RMSNorm() + + if block_type == "A": + self.mixer = CausalSelfAttention( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + ) + elif block_type == "S": + self.mixer = SSMBlock( + dim=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + elif block_type == "G": + self.mixer = GatedLinearAttentionKernel( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + else: + raise ValueError(f"Unknown block type: {block_type}") + + if use_swiglu: + self.mlp = SwiGLUMLP(dim, swiglu_hidden) + else: + self.mlp = MLP(dim, mlp_hidden) + + self.mixer_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.mlp_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.resid_mix = nn.Parameter(torch.stack((torch.ones(dim), torch.zeros(dim))).float()) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor, x0: Tensor) -> Tensor: + mix = self.resid_mix.to(dtype=x.dtype) + x = mix[0][None, None, :] * x + mix[1][None, None, :] * x0 + n = self.mixer_norm(x) + mixed = self.mixer(n) + x = x + self.mixer_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * mixed + x = x + self.mlp_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * self.mlp(self.mlp_norm(x)) + return x + + +class GPT(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + vocab_size: int, + block_pattern: str, + model_dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + smear_gate: bool, + tie_embeddings: bool, + tied_embed_init_std: float, + logit_softcap: float, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + patch_size: int = 1, + byte_embed_dim: int = 128, + bigram_hash_buckets: int = 0, + bigram_hash_dim: int = 64, + ): + super().__init__() + if model_dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("MODEL_DIM must be divisible by NUM_HEADS") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("NUM_HEADS must be divisible by NUM_KV_HEADS") + if logit_softcap <= 0.0: + raise ValueError(f"logit_softcap must be positive, got {logit_softcap}") + if not block_pattern: + raise ValueError("BLOCK_PATTERN must be non-empty") + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={block_pattern}, expected only S, A, and G") + if patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {patch_size}") + if byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {byte_embed_dim}") + + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.use_patching = self.patch_size > 1 + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.byte_embed_dim = byte_embed_dim if self.use_patching else model_dim + + if self.use_patching and tie_embeddings: + tie_embeddings = False + + self.block_pattern = block_pattern + self.tie_embeddings = tie_embeddings + self.tied_embed_init_std = tied_embed_init_std + self.logit_softcap = logit_softcap + + self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, self.byte_embed_dim) + self.patch_encoder = ( + nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=self.byte_embed_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + bias=False, + ) + if self.use_patching + else None + ) + self.smear_gate = SmearGate(model_dim) if smear_gate else None + self.bigram_hash = ( + ByteBigramHash(bigram_hash_buckets, bigram_hash_dim, model_dim) + if bigram_hash_buckets > 0 + else None + ) + + self.num_layers = len(block_pattern) + self.num_encoder_layers = self.num_layers // 2 + self.num_decoder_layers = self.num_layers - self.num_encoder_layers + self.num_skip_weights = min(self.num_encoder_layers, self.num_decoder_layers) + self.skip_weights = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(self.num_skip_weights, model_dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + self.blocks = nn.ModuleList( + [ + HybridLayer( + block_type=block_pattern[i], + dim=model_dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=mlp_hidden, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + use_swiglu=use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=swiglu_hidden, + ) + for i in range(self.num_layers) + ] + ) + self.final_norm = RMSNorm() + + if self.use_patching: + self.intra_decoder = IntraPatchDecoder(model_dim, self.byte_embed_dim, self.patch_size, vocab_size) + self.lm_head = None + else: + self.lm_head = None if self.tie_embeddings else CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + if self.lm_head is not None: + self.lm_head._zero_init = True + self.intra_decoder = None + + self._init_weights() + + def _init_weights(self) -> None: + if self.tie_embeddings: + nn.init.normal_(self.tok_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=self.tied_embed_init_std) + + skip_zero_init_for_ids = set() + for block in self.blocks: + if block.block_type in ("S", "G"): + for m in block.mixer.modules(): + skip_zero_init_for_ids.add(id(m)) + + for module in self.modules(): + if isinstance(module, nn.Linear) and getattr(module, "_zero_init", False): + if id(module) not in skip_zero_init_for_ids: + nn.init.zeros_(module.weight) + + def forward_logits(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + input_len = input_ids.size(1) + x = self.tok_emb(input_ids) + + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + x = self.patch_encoder(F.pad(x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0))).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + + x = F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),)) + if self.smear_gate is not None: + x = self.smear_gate(x) + if self.bigram_hash is not None: + bigram_x = self.bigram_hash(input_ids) + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + bigram_x = F.avg_pool1d( + F.pad(bigram_x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0)), + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + ).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + x = x + bigram_x.to(dtype=x.dtype) + + x0 = x + skips: list[Tensor] = [] + + for i in range(self.num_encoder_layers): + x = self.blocks[i](x, x0) + skips.append(x) + + for i in range(self.num_decoder_layers): + bi = self.num_encoder_layers + i + if skips: + x = x + self.skip_weights[i].to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * skips.pop() + x = self.blocks[bi](x, x0) + + x = self.final_norm(x) + if self.use_patching: + logits = self.intra_decoder(x, input_ids, self.tok_emb) + logits = logits[:, :input_len, :] + elif self.tie_embeddings: + logits = F.linear(x, self.tok_emb.weight) + else: + logits = self.lm_head(x) + + logits = self.logit_softcap * torch.tanh(logits / self.logit_softcap) + return logits + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, target_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + logits = self.forward_logits(input_ids) + return F.cross_entropy( + logits.float().reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)), + target_ids.reshape(-1), + reduction="mean", + ) + + +def split_block_params_for_optim(model: GPT) -> tuple[list[Tensor], list[Tensor]]: + matrix_params: list[Tensor] = [] + scalar_params: list[Tensor] = [] + + for name, p in model.blocks.named_parameters(): + is_control = any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + if p.ndim == 2 and not is_control and not is_ssm_small_param(name): + matrix_params.append(p) + else: + scalar_params.append(p) + + if model.patch_encoder is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.patch_encoder.parameters())) + + if model.bigram_hash is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.bigram_hash.parameters())) + + if model.skip_weights.numel() > 0: + scalar_params.append(model.skip_weights) + + return matrix_params, scalar_params + + +class SWAHelper: + def __init__(self, start_step: int, every: int): + self.start_step = start_step + self.every = max(every, 1) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.avg_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step or (step % self.every) != 0: + return + if self.avg_params is None: + self.avg_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + self.num_updates += 1 + alpha = 1.0 / float(self.num_updates) + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.avg_params[name].add_(p.detach().float() - self.avg_params[name], alpha=alpha) + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.avg_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.avg_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.avg_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +class EMAHelper: + def __init__(self, decay: float, start_step: int = 0): + if not (0.0 < decay < 1.0): + raise ValueError(f"EMA decay must be in (0,1), got {decay}") + self.decay = decay + self.start_step = max(start_step, 0) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.shadow_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step: + return + + if self.shadow_params is None: + self.shadow_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + d = self.decay + one_minus = 1.0 - d + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.shadow_params[name].mul_(d).add_(p.detach().float(), alpha=one_minus) + self.num_updates += 1 + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.shadow_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.shadow_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.shadow_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +# ----------------------------- +# TRAINING +# ----------------------------- +def main() -> None: + code = Path(__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + args = Hyperparameters() + + args.block_pattern = "".join(args.block_pattern.split()).upper() + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in args.block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={args.block_pattern}; only S/A/G are allowed.") + + if args.num_layers != len(args.block_pattern): + if "BLOCK_PATTERN" in os.environ: + raise ValueError( + f"NUM_LAYERS={args.num_layers} must match len(BLOCK_PATTERN)={len(args.block_pattern)}" + ) + generated = ["S"] * args.num_layers + if args.num_layers > 0: + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, args.num_layers // 3)] = "A" + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, (2 * args.num_layers) // 3)] = "A" + args.block_pattern = "".join(generated) + + args.num_layers = len(args.block_pattern) + + if args.vocab_size <= 0 or args.vocab_size > 256: + raise ValueError(f"Byte-level VOCAB_SIZE must be in [1,256], got {args.vocab_size}") + if args.train_seq_len <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be positive, got {args.train_seq_len}") + if args.patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {args.patch_size}") + if args.byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {args.byte_embed_dim}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets < 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS must be non-negative, got {args.bigram_hash_buckets}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0 and args.bigram_hash_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_DIM must be positive when BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS>0, got {args.bigram_hash_dim}") + if args.train_seq_len % args.patch_size != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be divisible by PATCH_SIZE for patch mode. " + f"Got TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}, PATCH_SIZE={args.patch_size}" + ) + if args.chunk_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"CHUNK_SIZE must be positive, got {args.chunk_size}") + + if args.use_compile: + globals()["zeropower_via_newtonschulz5"] = torch.compile(zeropower_via_newtonschulz5) + + # ----------------------------- + # DISTRIBUTED + CUDA SETUP + # ----------------------------- + distributed = "RANK" in os.environ and "WORLD_SIZE" in os.environ + rank = int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) + world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) + local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", "0")) + + if world_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE must be positive, got {world_size}") + if 8 % world_size != 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE={world_size} must divide 8 so grad_accum_steps stays integral") + + grad_accum_steps = 8 // world_size + grad_scale = 1.0 / grad_accum_steps + batch_divisor = world_size * grad_accum_steps + + if args.train_batch_tokens % batch_divisor != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={batch_divisor}, " + f"got {args.train_batch_tokens}" + ) + if (args.train_batch_tokens // batch_divisor) % args.train_seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + "Per-rank tokens per micro-step must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN for static shapes. " + f"Got train_batch_tokens={args.train_batch_tokens}, divisor={batch_divisor}, " + f"train_seq_len={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + if not torch.cuda.is_available(): + raise RuntimeError("CUDA is required") + device = torch.device("cuda", local_rank) + torch.cuda.set_device(device) + + if distributed: + dist.init_process_group(backend="nccl", device_id=device) + dist.barrier() + + master_process = rank == 0 + + torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True + torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True + from torch.backends.cuda import enable_cudnn_sdp, enable_flash_sdp, enable_math_sdp, enable_mem_efficient_sdp + + enable_cudnn_sdp(False) + enable_flash_sdp(True) + enable_mem_efficient_sdp(False) + enable_math_sdp(False) + + logfile = None + if master_process: + os.makedirs("logs", exist_ok=True) + logfile = f"logs/{args.run_id}.txt" + print(logfile) + + def log0(msg: str, console: bool = True) -> None: + if not master_process: + return + if console: + print(msg) + if logfile is not None: + with open(logfile, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f: + print(msg, file=f) + + log0(code, console=False) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + log0(f"Running Python {sys.version}", console=False) + log0(f"Running PyTorch {torch.__version__}", console=False) + log0( + subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=False).stdout, + console=False, + ) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + + # ----------------------------- + # SEEDING + DATA + # ----------------------------- + random.seed(args.seed) + np.random.seed(args.seed) + torch.manual_seed(args.seed) + torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(args.seed) + + dataset_dir = Path(args.data_path).resolve() + actual_train_files = len(list(dataset_dir.glob("fineweb_train_*.bin"))) + val_tokens = load_validation_tokens( + args.val_files, + args.train_seq_len, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + log0("val_bpb:enabled tokenizer_kind=bytes formula=loss/ln(2)") + log0(f"train_loader:dataset:{dataset_dir.name} train_shards:{actual_train_files}") + log0(f"val_loader:shards pattern={args.val_files} tokens:{val_tokens.numel() - 1}") + log0( + f"hybrid_blocks pattern:{args.block_pattern} " + f"num_layers:{len(args.block_pattern)} ssm_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('S')} " + f"attn_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('A')} gla_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('G')}" + ) + log0("mamba_backend:chunked_pure_pytorch") + log0( + f"byte_model vocab_size:{args.vocab_size} train_seq_len:{args.train_seq_len} " + f"train_batch_tokens:{args.train_batch_tokens} patch_size:{args.patch_size} " + f"byte_embed_dim:{args.byte_embed_dim}" + ) + log0( + f"mlp_mult:{args.mlp_mult} mlp_hidden:{args.mlp_hidden} " + f"smear_gate:{args.smear_gate} use_compile:{args.use_compile} " + f"use_swiglu:{args.use_swiglu} swiglu_hidden:{args.swiglu_hidden}" + ) + log0( + f"bigram_hash enabled:{args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0} " + f"buckets:{args.bigram_hash_buckets} dim:{args.bigram_hash_dim}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # MODEL + OPTIMIZERS + # ----------------------------- + base_model = GPT( + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + block_pattern=args.block_pattern, + model_dim=args.model_dim, + num_heads=args.num_heads, + num_kv_heads=args.num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=args.mlp_hidden, + smear_gate=args.smear_gate, + tie_embeddings=args.tie_embeddings, + tied_embed_init_std=args.tied_embed_init_std, + logit_softcap=args.logit_softcap, + rope_base=args.rope_base, + qk_gain_init=args.qk_gain_init, + d_state=args.d_state, + d_conv=args.d_conv, + expand=args.expand, + headdim=args.headdim, + ngroups=args.ngroups, + chunk_size=args.chunk_size, + use_swiglu=args.use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=args.swiglu_hidden, + patch_size=args.patch_size, + byte_embed_dim=args.byte_embed_dim, + bigram_hash_buckets=args.bigram_hash_buckets, + bigram_hash_dim=args.bigram_hash_dim, + ).to(device).bfloat16() + + if args.patch_size > 1 and args.tie_embeddings and not base_model.tie_embeddings: + log0("byte_patch: tie_embeddings disabled because PATCH_SIZE>1 uses an explicit patch decoder.") + + for module in base_model.modules(): + if isinstance(module, CastedLinear): + module.float() + if isinstance(module, Rotary): + module.inv_freq.data = module.inv_freq.data.float() + restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(base_model) + + compiled_model = torch.compile(base_model, dynamic=False, fullgraph=True) if args.use_compile else base_model + model: nn.Module = DDP(compiled_model, device_ids=[local_rank], broadcast_buffers=False) if distributed else compiled_model + + matrix_params, scalar_params = split_block_params_for_optim(base_model) + if base_model.smear_gate is not None: + scalar_params.append(base_model.smear_gate.gate) + + token_lr = args.tied_embed_lr if base_model.tie_embeddings else args.embed_lr + + optimizer_tok = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.tok_emb.weight], "lr": token_lr, "base_lr": token_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizer_muon = Muon( + matrix_params, + lr=args.matrix_lr, + momentum=args.muon_momentum_warmup_start, + backend_steps=args.muon_backend_steps, + weight_decay=args.muon_weight_decay, + ) + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["base_lr"] = args.matrix_lr + + optimizer_scalar = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": scalar_params, "lr": args.scalar_lr, "base_lr": args.scalar_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + + optimizers: list[torch.optim.Optimizer] = [optimizer_tok, optimizer_muon, optimizer_scalar] + if base_model.lm_head is not None: + optimizer_head = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.lm_head.weight], "lr": args.head_lr, "base_lr": args.head_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizers.insert(1, optimizer_head) + + n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in base_model.parameters()) + matrix_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in matrix_params) + scalar_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in scalar_params) + + swa_start_step = max(int(args.iterations * (1.0 - args.swa_last_frac)), 0) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + log0(f"model_params:{n_params}") + log0(f"optimizer_split matrix_params:{matrix_param_count} scalar_params:{scalar_param_count}") + log0(f"world_size:{world_size} grad_accum_steps:{grad_accum_steps}") + log0("sdp_backends:cudnn=False flash=True mem_efficient=False math=False") + log0(f"attention_mode:gqa num_heads:{args.num_heads} num_kv_heads:{args.num_kv_heads}") + log0( + f"ssm_config d_state:{args.d_state} d_conv:{args.d_conv} expand:{args.expand} " + f"headdim:{args.headdim} ngroups:{args.ngroups} chunk_size:{args.chunk_size}" + ) + log0( + f"tie_embeddings:{base_model.tie_embeddings} embed_lr:{token_lr} " + f"head_lr:{args.head_lr if base_model.lm_head is not None else 0.0} " + f"matrix_lr:{args.matrix_lr} scalar_lr:{args.scalar_lr} " + f"muon_weight_decay:{args.muon_weight_decay}" + ) + log0( + f"muon_momentum_warmup start:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_start} " + f"target:{args.muon_momentum} steps:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps}" + ) + log0( + f"ema decay:{args.ema_decay} start_step:{args.ema_start_step} | " + f"swa every:{args.swa_every} last_frac:{args.swa_last_frac} start_step:{swa_start_step}" + ) + log0( + f"iterations:{args.iterations} warmup_steps:{args.warmup_steps} warmdown_iters:{args.warmdown_iters} " + f"max_wallclock_seconds:{args.max_wallclock_seconds:.3f}" + ) + log0( + f"val_sliding stride:{args.val_sliding_stride} every:{args.val_sliding_every} " + f"max_tokens:{args.val_sliding_max_tokens}" + ) + log0(f"seed:{args.seed}") + + # ----------------------------- + # DATA + SCHEDULE HELPERS + # ----------------------------- + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + def zero_grad_all() -> None: + for opt in optimizers: + opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) + + max_wallclock_ms = 1000.0 * args.max_wallclock_seconds if args.max_wallclock_seconds > 0 else None + + def lr_mul(step: int, elapsed_ms: float) -> float: + if args.warmdown_iters <= 0: + return 1.0 + if max_wallclock_ms is None: + warmdown_start = max(args.iterations - args.warmdown_iters, 0) + if step < warmdown_start: + return 1.0 + return max((args.iterations - step) / max(args.warmdown_iters, 1), 0.0) + + step_ms = elapsed_ms / max(step, 1) + warmdown_ms = args.warmdown_iters * step_ms + remaining_ms = max(max_wallclock_ms - elapsed_ms, 0.0) + return remaining_ms / max(warmdown_ms, 1e-9) if remaining_ms <= warmdown_ms else 1.0 + + # ----------------------------- + # WARMUP (compile path priming) + # ----------------------------- + if args.warmup_steps > 0: + initial_model_state = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + initial_optimizer_states = [copy.deepcopy(opt.state_dict()) for opt in optimizers] + + model.train() + for warmup_step in range(args.warmup_steps): + zero_grad_all() + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + warmup_loss = model(x, y) + (warmup_loss * grad_scale).backward() + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + if args.warmup_steps <= 20 or (warmup_step + 1) % 10 == 0 or warmup_step + 1 == args.warmup_steps: + log0(f"warmup_step:{warmup_step + 1}/{args.warmup_steps}") + + base_model.load_state_dict(initial_model_state, strict=True) + for opt, state in zip(optimizers, initial_optimizer_states, strict=True): + opt.load_state_dict(state) + zero_grad_all() + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = True + + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + # ----------------------------- + # MAIN LOOP + # ----------------------------- + training_time_ms = 0.0 + stop_after_step: int | None = None + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + step = 0 + while True: + last_step = step == args.iterations or (stop_after_step is not None and step >= stop_after_step) + + should_validate = last_step or (args.val_loss_every > 0 and step % args.val_loss_every == 0) + if should_validate: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + training_time_ms += 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + + val_loss, val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + + msg = ( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} val_loss:{val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{val_bpb:.4f} " + f"train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{training_time_ms / max(step, 1):.2f}ms" + ) + + should_validate_sliding = args.val_sliding_stride > 0 and ( + last_step or (args.val_sliding_every > 0 and step % args.val_sliding_every == 0) + ) + if should_validate_sliding: + s_val_loss, s_val_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + msg += f" sliding_loss:{s_val_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_val_bpb:.4f}" + + log0(msg) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + if last_step: + if stop_after_step is not None and step < args.iterations: + log0( + f"stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms " + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations}" + ) + break + + elapsed_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + scale = lr_mul(step, elapsed_ms) + + zero_grad_all() + train_loss = torch.zeros((), device=device) + + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + loss = model(x, y) + train_loss += loss.detach() + (loss * grad_scale).backward() + + train_loss /= grad_accum_steps + + frac = min(step / args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps, 1.0) if args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps > 0 else 1.0 + muon_momentum = (1.0 - frac) * args.muon_momentum_warmup_start + frac * args.muon_momentum + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["momentum"] = muon_momentum + + for opt in optimizers: + for group in opt.param_groups: + group["lr"] = group["base_lr"] * scale + + if args.grad_clip_norm > 0: + torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(base_model.parameters(), args.grad_clip_norm) + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + step += 1 + ema_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + swa_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + + approx_training_time_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + should_log_train = ( + args.train_log_every > 0 and (step <= 10 or step % args.train_log_every == 0 or stop_after_step is not None) + ) + if should_log_train: + log0( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} train_loss:{train_loss.item():.4f} " + f"train_time:{approx_training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{approx_training_time_ms / step:.2f}ms " + f"lr_scale:{scale:.4f} muon_momentum:{muon_momentum:.4f} " + f"ema_updates:{ema_helper.num_updates} swa_updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}" + ) + + reached_cap = max_wallclock_ms is not None and approx_training_time_ms >= max_wallclock_ms + if distributed and max_wallclock_ms is not None: + reached_cap_tensor = torch.tensor(int(reached_cap), device=device) + dist.all_reduce(reached_cap_tensor, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX) + reached_cap = bool(reached_cap_tensor.item()) + if stop_after_step is None and reached_cap: + stop_after_step = step + + log0( + f"peak memory allocated: {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() // 1024 // 1024} MiB " + f"reserved: {torch.cuda.max_memory_reserved() // 1024 // 1024} MiB" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # FINAL SNAPSHOT SELECTION: BASE vs EMA vs SWA + # ----------------------------- + def eval_snapshot(tag: str) -> tuple[float, float]: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_eval = time.perf_counter() + snap_loss, snap_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + + msg = ( + f"{tag} val_loss:{snap_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{snap_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_eval):.0f}ms" + ) + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_slide = time.perf_counter() + s_loss, s_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + msg += ( + f" sliding_loss:{s_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_bpb:.4f} " + f"sliding_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_slide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(msg) + return snap_loss, snap_bpb + + base_state_cpu = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + candidate_results: dict[str, tuple[float, float]] = {} + + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + candidate_results["base"] = eval_snapshot("post_train_base") + + if ema_helper.has_state(): + ema_helper.apply_to(base_model) + candidate_results["ema"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_ema decay:{args.ema_decay:.6f}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_ema skipped:no_updates") + + if swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + candidate_results["swa"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_swa updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_swa skipped:no_updates") + + variant_to_index = {"base": 0, "ema": 1, "swa": 2} + index_to_variant = {0: "base", 1: "ema", 2: "swa"} + + if master_process: + best_variant = min(candidate_results.items(), key=lambda item: item[1][1])[0] + best_idx = variant_to_index[best_variant] + else: + best_idx = 0 + + best_idx_tensor = torch.tensor(best_idx, device=device, dtype=torch.int64) + if distributed: + dist.broadcast(best_idx_tensor, src=0) + best_variant = index_to_variant[int(best_idx_tensor.item())] + + if best_variant == "base": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + elif best_variant == "ema": + if not ema_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected EMA weights but EMA state is unavailable.") + elif best_variant == "swa": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + if not swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected SWA weights but SWA state is unavailable.") + else: + raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown best variant: {best_variant}") + + if master_process: + best_loss, best_bpb = candidate_results[best_variant] + log0( + f"selected_final_weights:{best_variant} " + f"val_loss:{best_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{best_bpb:.4f}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # SERIALIZE + ROUNDTRIP EVAL + # ----------------------------- + if master_process: + torch.save(base_model.state_dict(), "final_model.pt") + model_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.pt") + code_bytes = len(code.encode("utf-8")) + log0(f"Serialized model fp32/bf16: {model_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Code size: {code_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Total submission size raw: {model_bytes + code_bytes} bytes") + + quant_obj, quant_stats = quantize_state_dict_int6( + base_model.state_dict(), + tie_embeddings=base_model.tie_embeddings, + ) + quant_buf = io.BytesIO() + torch.save(quant_obj, quant_buf) + quant_raw = quant_buf.getvalue() + quant_blob, codec = compress_payload(quant_raw) + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "wb") as f: + f.write(quant_blob) + + quant_file_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.int6.ptz") + ratio = quant_stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] / max(quant_stats["int6_payload_bytes"], 1) + total_submission = quant_file_bytes + code_bytes + limit_bytes = 16 * 1024 * 1024 + + log0( + f"Serialized model int6+{codec}: {quant_file_bytes} bytes " + f"(payload:{quant_stats['int6_payload_bytes']} raw_torch:{len(quant_raw)} payload_ratio:{ratio:.2f}x)" + ) + log0(f"Total submission size int6+{codec}: {total_submission} bytes") + log0(f"submission_limit_16mb:{total_submission <= limit_bytes} limit_bytes:{limit_bytes}") + + if distributed: + dist.barrier() + + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "rb") as f: + quant_blob_disk = f.read() + quant_state = torch.load(io.BytesIO(decompress_payload(quant_blob_disk)), map_location="cpu") + base_model.load_state_dict(dequantize_state_dict_int6(quant_state), strict=True) + + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qeval = time.perf_counter() + q_val_loss, q_val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:{q_val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qeval):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(f"final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:{q_val_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.8f}") + + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qslide = time.perf_counter() + q_slide_loss, q_slide_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qslide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.8f}" + ) + + if distributed: + dist.destroy_process_group() + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() +==================================================================================================== +Running Python 3.12.3 (main, Mar 3 2026, 12:15:18) [GCC 13.3.0] +Running PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128 +Wed Mar 25 09:08:22 2026 ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 | ++-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. 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+warmup_step:8/10 +warmup_step:9/10 +warmup_step:10/10 +step:1/20000 train_loss:5.5241 train_time:545ms step_avg:545.17ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:1 swa_updates:0 +step:2/20000 train_loss:4.7665 train_time:631ms step_avg:315.55ms lr_scale:0.3138 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:2 swa_updates:0 +step:3/20000 train_loss:4.9625 train_time:714ms step_avg:237.99ms lr_scale:0.5397 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:3 swa_updates:0 +step:4/20000 train_loss:5.3417 train_time:797ms step_avg:199.18ms lr_scale:0.7153 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:4 swa_updates:0 +step:5/20000 train_loss:4.4089 train_time:880ms step_avg:175.92ms lr_scale:0.8550 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:5 swa_updates:0 +step:6/20000 train_loss:4.2832 train_time:962ms step_avg:160.37ms lr_scale:0.9684 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:6 swa_updates:0 +step:7/20000 train_loss:3.9160 train_time:1045ms step_avg:149.31ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9202 ema_updates:7 swa_updates:0 +step:8/20000 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step_avg:83.56ms lr_scale:0.6233 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:5000 swa_updates:0 +step:6000/20000 train_loss:0.8660 train_time:501020ms step_avg:83.50ms lr_scale:0.3389 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:6000 swa_updates:0 +step:7000/20000 train_loss:0.7935 train_time:584529ms step_avg:83.50ms lr_scale:0.0532 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:7000 swa_updates:0 +step:7187/20000 val_loss:0.8506 val_bpb:1.2272 train_time:600048ms step_avg:83.49ms sliding_loss:0.8396 sliding_bpb:1.2113 +stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:600048ms step:7187/20000 +peak memory allocated: 12067 MiB reserved: 12528 MiB +post_train_base val_loss:0.8506 val_bpb:1.2272 eval_time:8143ms sliding_loss:0.8396 sliding_bpb:1.2113 sliding_time:19947ms +post_train_ema decay:0.997000 val_loss:0.8502 val_bpb:1.2265 eval_time:8177ms sliding_loss:0.8390 sliding_bpb:1.2105 sliding_time:19852ms +post_train_swa skipped:no_updates +selected_final_weights:ema val_loss:0.8502 val_bpb:1.2265 +Serialized model fp32/bf16: 110074917 bytes +Code size: 73320 bytes +Total submission size raw: 110148237 bytes +Serialized model int6+zstd22: 15460609 bytes (payload:27973840 raw_torch:28040853 payload_ratio:3.93x) +Total submission size int6+zstd22: 15533929 bytes +submission_limit_16mb:True limit_bytes:16777216 +final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:0.8530 val_bpb:1.2306 eval_time:8143ms +final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:0.85295665 val_bpb:1.23055633 +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:0.8419 val_bpb:1.2146 eval_time:19844ms +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:0.84187484 val_bpb:1.21456865 diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed2025.txt b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed2025.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f728783c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed2025.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2016 @@ +from __future__ import annotations + +import copy +import glob +import io +import math +import os +import random +import subprocess +import sys +import time +import uuid +import zlib +from pathlib import Path + +import numpy as np +import torch +import torch.distributed as dist +import torch.nn.functional as F +from torch import Tensor, nn +from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP + +_THIS_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent +for _extra in (_THIS_DIR, _THIS_DIR.parent / "kernel_optimized"): + if _extra.exists(): + _extra_str = str(_extra) + if _extra_str not in sys.path: + sys.path.insert(0, _extra_str) + +try: + from chunked_mamba2 import ChunkedPureMamba2 + from chunked_gla import GatedLinearAttentionKernel +except Exception as exc: + raise ImportError( + "Could not import chunked_mamba2/chunked_gla. Ensure these files are available " + "in this directory, ../kernel_optimized, or on PYTHONPATH." + ) from exc + +try: + import zstandard as zstd +except Exception: + zstd = None + + +# ----------------------------- +# HYPERPARAMETERS +# ----------------------------- +class Hyperparameters: + # Data. + data_path = os.environ.get("DATA_PATH", "./data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes") + train_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_train_*.bin") + val_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_val_*.bin") + run_id = os.environ.get("RUN_ID", str(uuid.uuid4())) + seed = int(os.environ.get("SEED", 1337)) + check_shard_vocab_range = bool(int(os.environ.get("CHECK_SHARD_VOCAB_RANGE", "1"))) + + # Validation / logging cadence. + val_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("VAL_BATCH_SIZE", 524_288)) + val_loss_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_LOSS_EVERY", 1000)) + val_sliding_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_EVERY", 0)) + val_sliding_stride = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE", 0)) + val_sliding_max_tokens = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS", 0)) + train_log_every = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_LOG_EVERY", 200)) + + # Training length / wallclock. + iterations = int(os.environ.get("ITERATIONS", 20_000)) + warmdown_iters = int(os.environ.get("WARMDOWN_ITERS", 3000)) + warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("WARMUP_STEPS", 20)) + train_batch_tokens = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS", 524_288)) + train_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_SEQ_LEN", 4096)) + max_wallclock_seconds = float(os.environ.get("MAX_WALLCLOCK_SECONDS", 600.0)) + qk_gain_init = float(os.environ.get("QK_GAIN_INIT", 1.5)) + + # Architecture. + vocab_size = int(os.environ.get("VOCAB_SIZE", 256)) + block_pattern = os.environ.get("BLOCK_PATTERN", "SSSASSSSAS").upper() + num_layers = int(os.environ.get("NUM_LAYERS", str(len(block_pattern)))) + num_kv_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_KV_HEADS", 4)) + model_dim = int(os.environ.get("MODEL_DIM", 512)) + patch_size = int(os.environ.get("PATCH_SIZE", "1")) + _default_byte_embed_dim = 128 if patch_size > 1 else model_dim + byte_embed_dim = int(os.environ.get("BYTE_EMBED_DIM", str(_default_byte_embed_dim))) + num_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_HEADS", 8)) + mlp_mult = int(os.environ.get("MLP_MULT", 2)) + _default_mlp_hidden = mlp_mult * model_dim + mlp_hidden = int(os.environ.get("MLP_HIDDEN", str(_default_mlp_hidden))) + smear_gate = bool(int(os.environ.get("SMEAR_GATE", "1"))) + bigram_hash_buckets = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS", "0")) + bigram_hash_dim = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_DIM", "64")) + use_swiglu = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_SWIGLU", "0"))) + _default_swiglu_hidden = ((_default_mlp_hidden * 2 // 3) + 63) // 64 * 64 + swiglu_hidden = int(os.environ.get("SWIGLU_HIDDEN", str(_default_swiglu_hidden))) + tie_embeddings = bool(int(os.environ.get("TIE_EMBEDDINGS", "1"))) + rope_base = float(os.environ.get("ROPE_BASE", 10000.0)) + logit_softcap = float(os.environ.get("LOGIT_SOFTCAP", 30.0)) + tied_embed_init_std = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_INIT_STD", 0.005)) + + # SSM / chunking. + d_state = int(os.environ.get("D_STATE", 64)) + d_conv = int(os.environ.get("D_CONV", 4)) + expand = int(os.environ.get("EXPAND", 1)) + headdim = int(os.environ.get("HEADDIM", 64)) + ngroups = int(os.environ.get("NGROUPS", 1)) + chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("CHUNK_SIZE", 64)) + + # Optimizer. + embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("EMBED_LR", 0.6)) + head_lr = float(os.environ.get("HEAD_LR", 0.008)) + tied_embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_LR", 0.05)) + matrix_lr = float(os.environ.get("MATRIX_LR", 0.04)) + scalar_lr = float(os.environ.get("SCALAR_LR", 0.04)) + muon_momentum = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM", 0.99)) + muon_momentum_warmup_start = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_START", 0.92)) + muon_momentum_warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_STEPS", 1500)) + muon_backend_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_BACKEND_STEPS", 5)) + muon_weight_decay = float(os.environ.get("MUON_WEIGHT_DECAY", 0.04)) + beta1 = float(os.environ.get("BETA1", 0.9)) + beta2 = float(os.environ.get("BETA2", 0.95)) + adam_eps = float(os.environ.get("ADAM_EPS", 1e-8)) + grad_clip_norm = float(os.environ.get("GRAD_CLIP_NORM", 0.3)) + use_compile = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_COMPILE", "1"))) + + # EMA / SWA. + ema_decay = float(os.environ.get("EMA_DECAY", 0.997)) + ema_start_step = int(os.environ.get("EMA_START_STEP", 0)) + swa_every = int(os.environ.get("SWA_EVERY", 50)) + swa_last_frac = float(os.environ.get("SWA_LAST_FRAC", 0.4)) + + # Kept for backward compatibility with baseline envs. + ttt_lora_rank = int(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_RANK", 8)) + ttt_lora_lr = float(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_LR", 0.01)) + ttt_chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_CHUNK_SIZE", 256)) + ttt_eval_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TTT_EVAL_SEQ_LEN", 1024)) + ttt_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_BATCH_SIZE", 64)) + + +CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS", + "mixer_scale,attn_scale,mlp_scale,resid_mix,q_gain,skip_weight,skip_weights,smear,bigram", + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS", + ",".join(CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS), + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL = int(os.environ.get("INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL", 65_536)) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE = float(os.environ.get("INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE", 99.99984)) +INT6_CLIP_Q = INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE / 100.0 +INT6_MAX_Q = 31 + + +def is_ssm_small_param(name: str) -> bool: + return any(p in name for p in ("A_log", "dt_bias", "conv_weight", "conv_bias", ".D", ".norm")) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MUON OPTIMIZER +# ----------------------------- +def zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(G: Tensor, steps: int = 10, eps: float = 1e-7) -> Tensor: + a, b, c = (3.4445, -4.7750, 2.0315) + X = G.bfloat16() + X /= X.norm() + eps + transposed = G.size(0) > G.size(1) + if transposed: + X = X.T + for _ in range(steps): + A = X @ X.T + B = b * A + c * A @ A + X = a * X + B @ X + return X.T if transposed else X + + +class Muon(torch.optim.Optimizer): + def __init__( + self, + params, + lr: float, + momentum: float, + backend_steps: int, + weight_decay: float = 0.0, + nesterov: bool = True, + ): + super().__init__( + params, + dict( + lr=lr, + momentum=momentum, + backend_steps=backend_steps, + weight_decay=weight_decay, + nesterov=nesterov, + ), + ) + + @torch.no_grad() + def step(self, closure=None): + loss = None + if closure is not None: + with torch.enable_grad(): + loss = closure() + + distributed = dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized() + world_size = dist.get_world_size() if distributed else 1 + rank = dist.get_rank() if distributed else 0 + + for group in self.param_groups: + params = group["params"] + if not params: + continue + lr = group["lr"] + momentum = group["momentum"] + backend_steps = group["backend_steps"] + weight_decay = group["weight_decay"] + nesterov = group["nesterov"] + + total_params = sum(int(p.numel()) for p in params) + updates_flat = torch.zeros(total_params, device=params[0].device, dtype=torch.bfloat16) + + curr = 0 + for i, p in enumerate(params): + if i % world_size == rank and p.grad is not None: + g = p.grad + state = self.state[p] + if "momentum_buffer" not in state: + state["momentum_buffer"] = torch.zeros_like(g) + buf = state["momentum_buffer"] + buf.mul_(momentum).add_(g) + if nesterov: + g = g.add(buf, alpha=momentum) + g = zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(g, steps=backend_steps) + g *= max(1, g.size(0) / g.size(1)) ** 0.5 + updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()] = g.reshape(-1) + curr += p.numel() + + if distributed: + dist.all_reduce(updates_flat, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + curr = 0 + decay_mul = 1.0 - lr * weight_decay + for p in params: + if weight_decay != 0.0: + p.mul_(decay_mul) + g = updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()].view_as(p).to(dtype=p.dtype) + p.add_(g, alpha=-lr) + curr += p.numel() + + return loss + + +# ----------------------------- +# DATA LOADING +# ----------------------------- +def load_data_shard(file: Path, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True) -> Tensor: + header_bytes = 256 * np.dtype("= vocab_size: + raise ValueError( + f"Shard contains token id >= vocab_size for {file}: max_id={max_id}, vocab_size={vocab_size}" + ) + + return torch.from_numpy(tokens_np.astype(np.uint16, copy=False)) + + +def load_validation_tokens( + pattern: str, + seq_len: int, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, +) -> Tensor: + files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + tokens = torch.cat( + [load_data_shard(file, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) for file in files] + ).contiguous() + usable = ((tokens.numel() - 1) // seq_len) * seq_len + if usable <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"Validation split is too short for TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={seq_len}") + return tokens[: usable + 1] + + +class TokenStream: + def __init__(self, pattern: str, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True): + self.files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not self.files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.check_vocab_range = check_vocab_range + self.file_idx = 0 + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[0], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def _advance_file(self) -> None: + self.file_idx = (self.file_idx + 1) % len(self.files) + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[self.file_idx], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def take(self, n: int) -> Tensor: + chunks: list[Tensor] = [] + remaining = n + while remaining > 0: + avail = self.tokens.numel() - self.pos + if avail <= 0: + self._advance_file() + continue + k = min(remaining, avail) + chunks.append(self.tokens[self.pos : self.pos + k]) + self.pos += k + remaining -= k + return chunks[0] if len(chunks) == 1 else torch.cat(chunks) + + +class DistributedTokenLoader: + def __init__( + self, + pattern: str, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, + ): + self.rank = rank + self.world_size = world_size + self.device = device + self.stream = TokenStream(pattern, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) + + def next_batch(self, global_tokens: int, seq_len: int, grad_accum_steps: int) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + denom = self.world_size * grad_accum_steps + if global_tokens % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS: " + f"{global_tokens} % {denom} != 0" + ) + local_tokens = global_tokens // denom + if local_tokens % seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"Per-rank tokens must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN. " + f"Got local_tokens={local_tokens}, seq_len={seq_len}" + ) + + per_rank_span = local_tokens + 1 + chunk = self.stream.take(per_rank_span * self.world_size) + start = self.rank * per_rank_span + local = chunk[start : start + per_rank_span].to(dtype=torch.int64) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, seq_len) + return x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True), y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True) + + +# ----------------------------- +# EVALUATION (BYTE-LEVEL BPB) +# ----------------------------- +def eval_val( + args: Hyperparameters, + model: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + grad_accum_steps: int, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + denom = world_size * grad_accum_steps + if args.val_batch_size % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"VAL_BATCH_SIZE must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS. " + f"Got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, denom={denom}" + ) + local_batch_tokens = args.val_batch_size // denom + if local_batch_tokens < args.train_seq_len: + raise ValueError( + "VAL_BATCH_SIZE must provide at least one sequence per rank; " + f"got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, WORLD_SIZE={world_size}, " + f"GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={grad_accum_steps}, TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + local_batch_seqs = local_batch_tokens // args.train_seq_len + total_seqs = (val_tokens.numel() - 1) // args.train_seq_len + seq_start = (total_seqs * rank) // world_size + seq_end = (total_seqs * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + for batch_seq_start in range(seq_start, seq_end, local_batch_seqs): + batch_seq_end = min(batch_seq_start + local_batch_seqs, seq_end) + raw_start = batch_seq_start * args.train_seq_len + raw_end = batch_seq_end * args.train_seq_len + 1 + + local = val_tokens[raw_start:raw_end].to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + batch_loss = model(x, y).detach() + + batch_token_count = float(y.numel()) + val_loss_sum += batch_loss.to(torch.float64) * batch_token_count + val_token_count += batch_token_count + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = val_loss_sum / val_token_count + # Byte-level BPB is direct: nats/byte divided by ln(2). + val_bpb = val_loss.item() / math.log(2.0) + model.train() + return float(val_loss.item()), float(val_bpb) + + +def eval_val_sliding( + args: Hyperparameters, + model_for_logits: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + stride = max(1, min(args.val_sliding_stride, args.train_seq_len)) + total_targets = val_tokens.numel() - 1 + start = (total_targets * rank) // world_size + end = (total_targets * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + local = val_tokens[start : end + 1] + if args.val_sliding_max_tokens > 0: + max_local_targets = max(args.val_sliding_max_tokens // max(world_size, 1), args.train_seq_len) + local = local[: min(local.numel(), max_local_targets + 1)] + if local.numel() < 2: + raise ValueError("Not enough validation tokens for sliding-window evaluation on this rank.") + + local = local.to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + local_targets = local.numel() - 1 + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model_for_logits.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + scored_upto = 0 + for window_start in range(0, local_targets, stride): + window_end = min(window_start + args.train_seq_len, local_targets) + x = local[window_start:window_end].unsqueeze(0) + y = local[window_start + 1 : window_end + 1] + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + logits = model_for_logits.forward_logits(x) + + window_target_start = window_start + 1 + window_target_end = window_end + score_start = max(window_target_start, scored_upto + 1) + if score_start > window_target_end: + continue + + offset = score_start - window_target_start + n_tokens = window_target_end - score_start + 1 + logits_slice = logits[:, offset : offset + n_tokens, :] + y_slice = y[offset : offset + n_tokens] + + val_loss_sum += F.cross_entropy( + logits_slice.float().reshape(-1, logits_slice.size(-1)), + y_slice.reshape(-1), + reduction="sum", + ).to(torch.float64) + val_token_count += float(n_tokens) + scored_upto = window_target_end + + if scored_upto < local_targets: + raise RuntimeError( + f"Sliding eval failed to score all tokens on rank {rank}: scored={scored_upto}, total={local_targets}" + ) + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = float((val_loss_sum / val_token_count).item()) + val_bpb = float(val_loss / math.log(2.0)) + model_for_logits.train() + return val_loss, val_bpb + + +# ----------------------------- +# INT6 + ZSTD EXPORT +# ----------------------------- +def tensor_nbytes(t: Tensor) -> int: + return int(t.numel()) * int(t.element_size()) + + +def keep_float_tensor(name: str, t: Tensor, passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str]) -> Tensor: + if t.dtype in {torch.float32, torch.bfloat16}: + passthrough_orig_dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + return t.to(dtype=INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE).contiguous() + return t.contiguous() + + +def quantize_float_tensor_int6(t: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t32 = t.float() + if t32.ndim == 2: + clip_abs = ( + torch.quantile(t32.abs(), INT6_CLIP_Q, dim=1) + if t32.numel() + else torch.empty((t32.shape[0],), dtype=torch.float32) + ) + clipped = torch.maximum(torch.minimum(t32, clip_abs[:, None]), -clip_abs[:, None]) + scale = (clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q)).clamp_min(1.0 / float(INT6_MAX_Q)) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(clipped / scale[:, None]), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q).to(torch.int8).contiguous() + return q, scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + clip_abs = float(torch.quantile(t32.abs().flatten(), INT6_CLIP_Q).item()) if t32.numel() else 0.0 + scale = torch.tensor(clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q) if clip_abs > 0.0 else 1.0, dtype=torch.float32) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(torch.clamp(t32, -clip_abs, clip_abs) / scale), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q) + return q.to(torch.int8).contiguous(), scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + +def quantize_state_dict_int6(state_dict: dict[str, Tensor], tie_embeddings: bool): + quantized: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + scales: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + passthrough: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + qmeta: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = {} + stats = dict.fromkeys( + ( + "param_count", + "num_tensors", + "num_float_tensors", + "num_nonfloat_tensors", + "baseline_tensor_bytes", + "int6_payload_bytes", + ), + 0, + ) + + for name, tensor in state_dict.items(): + t = tensor.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + stats["param_count"] += int(t.numel()) + stats["num_tensors"] += 1 + stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + + if not t.is_floating_point(): + stats["num_nonfloat_tensors"] += 1 + passthrough[name] = t + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + continue + + if tie_embeddings and name == "tok_emb.weight": + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + if t.numel() <= INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL or any( + pattern in name for pattern in INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS + ): + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + stats["num_float_tensors"] += 1 + q, s = quantize_float_tensor_int6(t) + if t.ndim == 2: + qmeta[name] = {"scheme": "per_row", "axis": 0} + quantized[name] = q + scales[name] = s + dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(q) + tensor_nbytes(s) + + obj: dict[str, object] = { + "__quant_format__": "int6_clean_per_row_v1", + "quantized": quantized, + "scales": scales, + "dtypes": dtypes, + "passthrough": passthrough, + } + if qmeta: + obj["qmeta"] = qmeta + if passthrough_orig_dtypes: + obj["passthrough_orig_dtypes"] = passthrough_orig_dtypes + return obj, stats + + +def dequantize_state_dict_int6(obj: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, Tensor]: + out: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + qmeta = obj.get("qmeta", {}) + passthrough_orig_dtypes = obj.get("passthrough_orig_dtypes", {}) + + for name, q in obj["quantized"].items(): + dtype = getattr(torch, obj["dtypes"][name]) + s = obj["scales"][name] + if qmeta.get(name, {}).get("scheme") == "per_row" or s.ndim > 0: + s32 = s.to(dtype=torch.float32) + out[name] = (q.float() * s32.view(q.shape[0], *([1] * (q.ndim - 1)))).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + else: + out[name] = (q.float() * float(s.item())).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + + for name, t in obj["passthrough"].items(): + out_t = t.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + orig_dtype = passthrough_orig_dtypes.get(name) + if isinstance(orig_dtype, str): + out_t = out_t.to(dtype=getattr(torch, orig_dtype)).contiguous() + out[name] = out_t + + return out + + +def compress_payload(raw: bytes) -> tuple[bytes, str]: + if zstd is not None: + cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(level=22) + return b"ZST0" + cctx.compress(raw), "zstd22" + return b"ZLB0" + zlib.compress(raw, level=9), "zlib9" + + +def decompress_payload(blob: bytes) -> bytes: + if blob.startswith(b"ZST0"): + if zstd is None: + raise RuntimeError("Payload uses zstd but zstandard is not installed.") + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob[4:]) + if blob.startswith(b"ZLB0"): + return zlib.decompress(blob[4:]) + if zstd is not None: + try: + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob) + except Exception: + pass + return zlib.decompress(blob) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MODEL +# ----------------------------- +class RMSNorm(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, eps: float | None = None): + super().__init__() + self.eps = eps + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),), eps=self.eps) + + +class CastedLinear(nn.Linear): + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bias = self.bias.to(x.dtype) if self.bias is not None else None + return F.linear(x, self.weight.to(x.dtype), bias) + + +def restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(module: nn.Module) -> None: + with torch.no_grad(): + for name, param in module.named_parameters(): + if param.dtype == torch.float32: + continue + if ( + param.ndim < 2 + or any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + or is_ssm_small_param(name) + ): + param.data = param.data.float() + + +class Rotary(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, base: float = 10000.0): + super().__init__() + inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim)) + self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False) + + def forward(self, seq_len: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=self.inv_freq.dtype) + freqs = torch.outer(t, self.inv_freq.to(device)) + cos = freqs.cos()[None, None, :, :] + sin = freqs.sin()[None, None, :, :] + return cos.to(dtype=dtype), sin.to(dtype=dtype) + + +def apply_rotary_emb(x: Tensor, cos: Tensor, sin: Tensor) -> Tensor: + half = x.size(-1) // 2 + x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:] + return torch.cat((x1 * cos + x2 * sin, x1 * (-sin) + x2 * cos), dim=-1) + + +class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + ): + super().__init__() + if dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("model_dim must be divisible by num_heads") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("num_heads must be divisible by num_kv_heads") + self.num_heads = num_heads + self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads + self.head_dim = dim // num_heads + if self.head_dim % 2 != 0: + raise ValueError("head_dim must be even for RoPE") + + kv_dim = self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim + self.c_q = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.c_k = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.c_v = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + self.q_gain = nn.Parameter(torch.full((num_heads,), qk_gain_init, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.rotary = Rotary(self.head_dim, base=rope_base) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bsz, seqlen, dim = x.shape + q = self.c_q(x) + k = self.c_k(x) + v = self.c_v(x) + + q = q.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + k = k.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + v = v.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + + q = F.rms_norm(q, (q.size(-1),)) + k = F.rms_norm(k, (k.size(-1),)) + cos, sin = self.rotary(seqlen, x.device, q.dtype) + q = apply_rotary_emb(q, cos, sin) + k = apply_rotary_emb(k, cos, sin) + q = q * self.q_gain.to(dtype=q.dtype)[None, :, None, None] + + y = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( + q, + k, + v, + attn_mask=None, + is_causal=True, + enable_gqa=(self.num_kv_heads != self.num_heads), + ) + y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().reshape(bsz, seqlen, dim) + return self.proj(y) + + +class MLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.fc = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x = F.leaky_relu(self.fc(x), negative_slope=0.5) + return self.proj(x.square()) + + +class SwiGLUMLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.up_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.down_proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.down_proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.down_proj(F.silu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)) + + +class SmearGate(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + g = torch.sigmoid(self.gate.to(dtype=x.dtype))[None, None, :] + x_prev = F.pad(x[:, :-1, :], (0, 0, 1, 0)) + return x + g * (x_prev - x) + + +class ByteBigramHash(nn.Module): + """Hashed byte-bigram embeddings. Maps consecutive byte pairs to embedding buckets.""" + + def __init__(self, num_buckets: int, embed_dim: int, model_dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.num_buckets = num_buckets + self.embed = nn.Embedding(num_buckets, embed_dim) + self.proj = CastedLinear(embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) if embed_dim != model_dim else nn.Identity() + nn.init.normal_(self.embed.weight, std=0.01) + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + prev = F.pad(input_ids[:, :-1], (1, 0), value=0) + bigram_ids = (prev * 256 + input_ids) % self.num_buckets + emb = self.embed(bigram_ids) + return self.proj(emb) + + +class IntraPatchDecoder(nn.Module): + """Causal intra-patch decoder: predicts bytes within each patch autoregressively. + + Uses a depthwise causal convolution to mix intra-patch byte context cheaply. + Each byte k's prediction depends on the patch latent + actual bytes 0..k-1. + """ + def __init__(self, model_dim: int, byte_embed_dim: int, patch_size: int, vocab_size: int): + super().__init__() + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.proj = CastedLinear(byte_embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) + # Depthwise causal conv to mix intra-patch context + self.conv = nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=model_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=patch_size, + padding=patch_size - 1, + groups=model_dim, + bias=False, + ) + self.norm = RMSNorm() + self.lm_head = CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + + def forward(self, latents: Tensor, input_ids: Tensor, tok_emb: nn.Embedding) -> Tensor: + B, n_patches, D = latents.shape + # 1. Fetch local byte embeddings (teacher forcing) + byte_embs = tok_emb(input_ids).view(B, n_patches, self.patch_size, -1) + # 2. Project byte features and add to global patch latent + h = latents.unsqueeze(2) + self.proj(byte_embs) + # 3. Apply causal depthwise convolution within each patch + h = h.view(B * n_patches, self.patch_size, D).transpose(1, 2) + h = self.conv(h)[..., :self.patch_size] # causal: slice off right padding + # 4. Back to flat sequence + h = h.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, n_patches * self.patch_size, D) + h = self.norm(h) + return self.lm_head(h) + + +class SSMBlock(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + d_state: int = 64, + d_conv: int = 4, + expand: int = 1, + headdim: int = 64, + ngroups: int = 1, + chunk_size: int = 64, + **kwargs, + ): + super().__init__() + self.mamba = ChunkedPureMamba2( + d_model=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.mamba(x) + + +class HybridLayer(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + block_type: str, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + ): + super().__init__() + self.block_type = block_type + self.mixer_norm = RMSNorm() + self.mlp_norm = RMSNorm() + + if block_type == "A": + self.mixer = CausalSelfAttention( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + ) + elif block_type == "S": + self.mixer = SSMBlock( + dim=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + elif block_type == "G": + self.mixer = GatedLinearAttentionKernel( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + else: + raise ValueError(f"Unknown block type: {block_type}") + + if use_swiglu: + self.mlp = SwiGLUMLP(dim, swiglu_hidden) + else: + self.mlp = MLP(dim, mlp_hidden) + + self.mixer_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.mlp_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.resid_mix = nn.Parameter(torch.stack((torch.ones(dim), torch.zeros(dim))).float()) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor, x0: Tensor) -> Tensor: + mix = self.resid_mix.to(dtype=x.dtype) + x = mix[0][None, None, :] * x + mix[1][None, None, :] * x0 + n = self.mixer_norm(x) + mixed = self.mixer(n) + x = x + self.mixer_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * mixed + x = x + self.mlp_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * self.mlp(self.mlp_norm(x)) + return x + + +class GPT(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + vocab_size: int, + block_pattern: str, + model_dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + smear_gate: bool, + tie_embeddings: bool, + tied_embed_init_std: float, + logit_softcap: float, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + patch_size: int = 1, + byte_embed_dim: int = 128, + bigram_hash_buckets: int = 0, + bigram_hash_dim: int = 64, + ): + super().__init__() + if model_dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("MODEL_DIM must be divisible by NUM_HEADS") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("NUM_HEADS must be divisible by NUM_KV_HEADS") + if logit_softcap <= 0.0: + raise ValueError(f"logit_softcap must be positive, got {logit_softcap}") + if not block_pattern: + raise ValueError("BLOCK_PATTERN must be non-empty") + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={block_pattern}, expected only S, A, and G") + if patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {patch_size}") + if byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {byte_embed_dim}") + + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.use_patching = self.patch_size > 1 + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.byte_embed_dim = byte_embed_dim if self.use_patching else model_dim + + if self.use_patching and tie_embeddings: + tie_embeddings = False + + self.block_pattern = block_pattern + self.tie_embeddings = tie_embeddings + self.tied_embed_init_std = tied_embed_init_std + self.logit_softcap = logit_softcap + + self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, self.byte_embed_dim) + self.patch_encoder = ( + nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=self.byte_embed_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + bias=False, + ) + if self.use_patching + else None + ) + self.smear_gate = SmearGate(model_dim) if smear_gate else None + self.bigram_hash = ( + ByteBigramHash(bigram_hash_buckets, bigram_hash_dim, model_dim) + if bigram_hash_buckets > 0 + else None + ) + + self.num_layers = len(block_pattern) + self.num_encoder_layers = self.num_layers // 2 + self.num_decoder_layers = self.num_layers - self.num_encoder_layers + self.num_skip_weights = min(self.num_encoder_layers, self.num_decoder_layers) + self.skip_weights = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(self.num_skip_weights, model_dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + self.blocks = nn.ModuleList( + [ + HybridLayer( + block_type=block_pattern[i], + dim=model_dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=mlp_hidden, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + use_swiglu=use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=swiglu_hidden, + ) + for i in range(self.num_layers) + ] + ) + self.final_norm = RMSNorm() + + if self.use_patching: + self.intra_decoder = IntraPatchDecoder(model_dim, self.byte_embed_dim, self.patch_size, vocab_size) + self.lm_head = None + else: + self.lm_head = None if self.tie_embeddings else CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + if self.lm_head is not None: + self.lm_head._zero_init = True + self.intra_decoder = None + + self._init_weights() + + def _init_weights(self) -> None: + if self.tie_embeddings: + nn.init.normal_(self.tok_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=self.tied_embed_init_std) + + skip_zero_init_for_ids = set() + for block in self.blocks: + if block.block_type in ("S", "G"): + for m in block.mixer.modules(): + skip_zero_init_for_ids.add(id(m)) + + for module in self.modules(): + if isinstance(module, nn.Linear) and getattr(module, "_zero_init", False): + if id(module) not in skip_zero_init_for_ids: + nn.init.zeros_(module.weight) + + def forward_logits(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + input_len = input_ids.size(1) + x = self.tok_emb(input_ids) + + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + x = self.patch_encoder(F.pad(x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0))).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + + x = F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),)) + if self.smear_gate is not None: + x = self.smear_gate(x) + if self.bigram_hash is not None: + bigram_x = self.bigram_hash(input_ids) + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + bigram_x = F.avg_pool1d( + F.pad(bigram_x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0)), + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + ).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + x = x + bigram_x.to(dtype=x.dtype) + + x0 = x + skips: list[Tensor] = [] + + for i in range(self.num_encoder_layers): + x = self.blocks[i](x, x0) + skips.append(x) + + for i in range(self.num_decoder_layers): + bi = self.num_encoder_layers + i + if skips: + x = x + self.skip_weights[i].to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * skips.pop() + x = self.blocks[bi](x, x0) + + x = self.final_norm(x) + if self.use_patching: + logits = self.intra_decoder(x, input_ids, self.tok_emb) + logits = logits[:, :input_len, :] + elif self.tie_embeddings: + logits = F.linear(x, self.tok_emb.weight) + else: + logits = self.lm_head(x) + + logits = self.logit_softcap * torch.tanh(logits / self.logit_softcap) + return logits + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, target_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + logits = self.forward_logits(input_ids) + return F.cross_entropy( + logits.float().reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)), + target_ids.reshape(-1), + reduction="mean", + ) + + +def split_block_params_for_optim(model: GPT) -> tuple[list[Tensor], list[Tensor]]: + matrix_params: list[Tensor] = [] + scalar_params: list[Tensor] = [] + + for name, p in model.blocks.named_parameters(): + is_control = any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + if p.ndim == 2 and not is_control and not is_ssm_small_param(name): + matrix_params.append(p) + else: + scalar_params.append(p) + + if model.patch_encoder is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.patch_encoder.parameters())) + + if model.bigram_hash is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.bigram_hash.parameters())) + + if model.skip_weights.numel() > 0: + scalar_params.append(model.skip_weights) + + return matrix_params, scalar_params + + +class SWAHelper: + def __init__(self, start_step: int, every: int): + self.start_step = start_step + self.every = max(every, 1) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.avg_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step or (step % self.every) != 0: + return + if self.avg_params is None: + self.avg_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + self.num_updates += 1 + alpha = 1.0 / float(self.num_updates) + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.avg_params[name].add_(p.detach().float() - self.avg_params[name], alpha=alpha) + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.avg_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.avg_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.avg_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +class EMAHelper: + def __init__(self, decay: float, start_step: int = 0): + if not (0.0 < decay < 1.0): + raise ValueError(f"EMA decay must be in (0,1), got {decay}") + self.decay = decay + self.start_step = max(start_step, 0) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.shadow_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step: + return + + if self.shadow_params is None: + self.shadow_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + d = self.decay + one_minus = 1.0 - d + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.shadow_params[name].mul_(d).add_(p.detach().float(), alpha=one_minus) + self.num_updates += 1 + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.shadow_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.shadow_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.shadow_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +# ----------------------------- +# TRAINING +# ----------------------------- +def main() -> None: + code = Path(__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + args = Hyperparameters() + + args.block_pattern = "".join(args.block_pattern.split()).upper() + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in args.block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={args.block_pattern}; only S/A/G are allowed.") + + if args.num_layers != len(args.block_pattern): + if "BLOCK_PATTERN" in os.environ: + raise ValueError( + f"NUM_LAYERS={args.num_layers} must match len(BLOCK_PATTERN)={len(args.block_pattern)}" + ) + generated = ["S"] * args.num_layers + if args.num_layers > 0: + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, args.num_layers // 3)] = "A" + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, (2 * args.num_layers) // 3)] = "A" + args.block_pattern = "".join(generated) + + args.num_layers = len(args.block_pattern) + + if args.vocab_size <= 0 or args.vocab_size > 256: + raise ValueError(f"Byte-level VOCAB_SIZE must be in [1,256], got {args.vocab_size}") + if args.train_seq_len <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be positive, got {args.train_seq_len}") + if args.patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {args.patch_size}") + if args.byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {args.byte_embed_dim}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets < 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS must be non-negative, got {args.bigram_hash_buckets}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0 and args.bigram_hash_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_DIM must be positive when BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS>0, got {args.bigram_hash_dim}") + if args.train_seq_len % args.patch_size != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be divisible by PATCH_SIZE for patch mode. " + f"Got TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}, PATCH_SIZE={args.patch_size}" + ) + if args.chunk_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"CHUNK_SIZE must be positive, got {args.chunk_size}") + + if args.use_compile: + globals()["zeropower_via_newtonschulz5"] = torch.compile(zeropower_via_newtonschulz5) + + # ----------------------------- + # DISTRIBUTED + CUDA SETUP + # ----------------------------- + distributed = "RANK" in os.environ and "WORLD_SIZE" in os.environ + rank = int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) + world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) + local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", "0")) + + if world_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE must be positive, got {world_size}") + if 8 % world_size != 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE={world_size} must divide 8 so grad_accum_steps stays integral") + + grad_accum_steps = 8 // world_size + grad_scale = 1.0 / grad_accum_steps + batch_divisor = world_size * grad_accum_steps + + if args.train_batch_tokens % batch_divisor != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={batch_divisor}, " + f"got {args.train_batch_tokens}" + ) + if (args.train_batch_tokens // batch_divisor) % args.train_seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + "Per-rank tokens per micro-step must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN for static shapes. " + f"Got train_batch_tokens={args.train_batch_tokens}, divisor={batch_divisor}, " + f"train_seq_len={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + if not torch.cuda.is_available(): + raise RuntimeError("CUDA is required") + device = torch.device("cuda", local_rank) + torch.cuda.set_device(device) + + if distributed: + dist.init_process_group(backend="nccl", device_id=device) + dist.barrier() + + master_process = rank == 0 + + torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True + torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True + from torch.backends.cuda import enable_cudnn_sdp, enable_flash_sdp, enable_math_sdp, enable_mem_efficient_sdp + + enable_cudnn_sdp(False) + enable_flash_sdp(True) + enable_mem_efficient_sdp(False) + enable_math_sdp(False) + + logfile = None + if master_process: + os.makedirs("logs", exist_ok=True) + logfile = f"logs/{args.run_id}.txt" + print(logfile) + + def log0(msg: str, console: bool = True) -> None: + if not master_process: + return + if console: + print(msg) + if logfile is not None: + with open(logfile, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f: + print(msg, file=f) + + log0(code, console=False) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + log0(f"Running Python {sys.version}", console=False) + log0(f"Running PyTorch {torch.__version__}", console=False) + log0( + subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=False).stdout, + console=False, + ) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + + # ----------------------------- + # SEEDING + DATA + # ----------------------------- + random.seed(args.seed) + np.random.seed(args.seed) + torch.manual_seed(args.seed) + torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(args.seed) + + dataset_dir = Path(args.data_path).resolve() + actual_train_files = len(list(dataset_dir.glob("fineweb_train_*.bin"))) + val_tokens = load_validation_tokens( + args.val_files, + args.train_seq_len, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + log0("val_bpb:enabled tokenizer_kind=bytes formula=loss/ln(2)") + log0(f"train_loader:dataset:{dataset_dir.name} train_shards:{actual_train_files}") + log0(f"val_loader:shards pattern={args.val_files} tokens:{val_tokens.numel() - 1}") + log0( + f"hybrid_blocks pattern:{args.block_pattern} " + f"num_layers:{len(args.block_pattern)} ssm_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('S')} " + f"attn_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('A')} gla_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('G')}" + ) + log0("mamba_backend:chunked_pure_pytorch") + log0( + f"byte_model vocab_size:{args.vocab_size} train_seq_len:{args.train_seq_len} " + f"train_batch_tokens:{args.train_batch_tokens} patch_size:{args.patch_size} " + f"byte_embed_dim:{args.byte_embed_dim}" + ) + log0( + f"mlp_mult:{args.mlp_mult} mlp_hidden:{args.mlp_hidden} " + f"smear_gate:{args.smear_gate} use_compile:{args.use_compile} " + f"use_swiglu:{args.use_swiglu} swiglu_hidden:{args.swiglu_hidden}" + ) + log0( + f"bigram_hash enabled:{args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0} " + f"buckets:{args.bigram_hash_buckets} dim:{args.bigram_hash_dim}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # MODEL + OPTIMIZERS + # ----------------------------- + base_model = GPT( + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + block_pattern=args.block_pattern, + model_dim=args.model_dim, + num_heads=args.num_heads, + num_kv_heads=args.num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=args.mlp_hidden, + smear_gate=args.smear_gate, + tie_embeddings=args.tie_embeddings, + tied_embed_init_std=args.tied_embed_init_std, + logit_softcap=args.logit_softcap, + rope_base=args.rope_base, + qk_gain_init=args.qk_gain_init, + d_state=args.d_state, + d_conv=args.d_conv, + expand=args.expand, + headdim=args.headdim, + ngroups=args.ngroups, + chunk_size=args.chunk_size, + use_swiglu=args.use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=args.swiglu_hidden, + patch_size=args.patch_size, + byte_embed_dim=args.byte_embed_dim, + bigram_hash_buckets=args.bigram_hash_buckets, + bigram_hash_dim=args.bigram_hash_dim, + ).to(device).bfloat16() + + if args.patch_size > 1 and args.tie_embeddings and not base_model.tie_embeddings: + log0("byte_patch: tie_embeddings disabled because PATCH_SIZE>1 uses an explicit patch decoder.") + + for module in base_model.modules(): + if isinstance(module, CastedLinear): + module.float() + if isinstance(module, Rotary): + module.inv_freq.data = module.inv_freq.data.float() + restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(base_model) + + compiled_model = torch.compile(base_model, dynamic=False, fullgraph=True) if args.use_compile else base_model + model: nn.Module = DDP(compiled_model, device_ids=[local_rank], broadcast_buffers=False) if distributed else compiled_model + + matrix_params, scalar_params = split_block_params_for_optim(base_model) + if base_model.smear_gate is not None: + scalar_params.append(base_model.smear_gate.gate) + + token_lr = args.tied_embed_lr if base_model.tie_embeddings else args.embed_lr + + optimizer_tok = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.tok_emb.weight], "lr": token_lr, "base_lr": token_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizer_muon = Muon( + matrix_params, + lr=args.matrix_lr, + momentum=args.muon_momentum_warmup_start, + backend_steps=args.muon_backend_steps, + weight_decay=args.muon_weight_decay, + ) + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["base_lr"] = args.matrix_lr + + optimizer_scalar = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": scalar_params, "lr": args.scalar_lr, "base_lr": args.scalar_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + + optimizers: list[torch.optim.Optimizer] = [optimizer_tok, optimizer_muon, optimizer_scalar] + if base_model.lm_head is not None: + optimizer_head = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.lm_head.weight], "lr": args.head_lr, "base_lr": args.head_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizers.insert(1, optimizer_head) + + n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in base_model.parameters()) + matrix_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in matrix_params) + scalar_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in scalar_params) + + swa_start_step = max(int(args.iterations * (1.0 - args.swa_last_frac)), 0) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + log0(f"model_params:{n_params}") + log0(f"optimizer_split matrix_params:{matrix_param_count} scalar_params:{scalar_param_count}") + log0(f"world_size:{world_size} grad_accum_steps:{grad_accum_steps}") + log0("sdp_backends:cudnn=False flash=True mem_efficient=False math=False") + log0(f"attention_mode:gqa num_heads:{args.num_heads} num_kv_heads:{args.num_kv_heads}") + log0( + f"ssm_config d_state:{args.d_state} d_conv:{args.d_conv} expand:{args.expand} " + f"headdim:{args.headdim} ngroups:{args.ngroups} chunk_size:{args.chunk_size}" + ) + log0( + f"tie_embeddings:{base_model.tie_embeddings} embed_lr:{token_lr} " + f"head_lr:{args.head_lr if base_model.lm_head is not None else 0.0} " + f"matrix_lr:{args.matrix_lr} scalar_lr:{args.scalar_lr} " + f"muon_weight_decay:{args.muon_weight_decay}" + ) + log0( + f"muon_momentum_warmup start:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_start} " + f"target:{args.muon_momentum} steps:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps}" + ) + log0( + f"ema decay:{args.ema_decay} start_step:{args.ema_start_step} | " + f"swa every:{args.swa_every} last_frac:{args.swa_last_frac} start_step:{swa_start_step}" + ) + log0( + f"iterations:{args.iterations} warmup_steps:{args.warmup_steps} warmdown_iters:{args.warmdown_iters} " + f"max_wallclock_seconds:{args.max_wallclock_seconds:.3f}" + ) + log0( + f"val_sliding stride:{args.val_sliding_stride} every:{args.val_sliding_every} " + f"max_tokens:{args.val_sliding_max_tokens}" + ) + log0(f"seed:{args.seed}") + + # ----------------------------- + # DATA + SCHEDULE HELPERS + # ----------------------------- + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + def zero_grad_all() -> None: + for opt in optimizers: + opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) + + max_wallclock_ms = 1000.0 * args.max_wallclock_seconds if args.max_wallclock_seconds > 0 else None + + def lr_mul(step: int, elapsed_ms: float) -> float: + if args.warmdown_iters <= 0: + return 1.0 + if max_wallclock_ms is None: + warmdown_start = max(args.iterations - args.warmdown_iters, 0) + if step < warmdown_start: + return 1.0 + return max((args.iterations - step) / max(args.warmdown_iters, 1), 0.0) + + step_ms = elapsed_ms / max(step, 1) + warmdown_ms = args.warmdown_iters * step_ms + remaining_ms = max(max_wallclock_ms - elapsed_ms, 0.0) + return remaining_ms / max(warmdown_ms, 1e-9) if remaining_ms <= warmdown_ms else 1.0 + + # ----------------------------- + # WARMUP (compile path priming) + # ----------------------------- + if args.warmup_steps > 0: + initial_model_state = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + initial_optimizer_states = [copy.deepcopy(opt.state_dict()) for opt in optimizers] + + model.train() + for warmup_step in range(args.warmup_steps): + zero_grad_all() + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + warmup_loss = model(x, y) + (warmup_loss * grad_scale).backward() + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + if args.warmup_steps <= 20 or (warmup_step + 1) % 10 == 0 or warmup_step + 1 == args.warmup_steps: + log0(f"warmup_step:{warmup_step + 1}/{args.warmup_steps}") + + base_model.load_state_dict(initial_model_state, strict=True) + for opt, state in zip(optimizers, initial_optimizer_states, strict=True): + opt.load_state_dict(state) + zero_grad_all() + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = True + + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + # ----------------------------- + # MAIN LOOP + # ----------------------------- + training_time_ms = 0.0 + stop_after_step: int | None = None + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + step = 0 + while True: + last_step = step == args.iterations or (stop_after_step is not None and step >= stop_after_step) + + should_validate = last_step or (args.val_loss_every > 0 and step % args.val_loss_every == 0) + if should_validate: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + training_time_ms += 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + + val_loss, val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + + msg = ( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} val_loss:{val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{val_bpb:.4f} " + f"train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{training_time_ms / max(step, 1):.2f}ms" + ) + + should_validate_sliding = args.val_sliding_stride > 0 and ( + last_step or (args.val_sliding_every > 0 and step % args.val_sliding_every == 0) + ) + if should_validate_sliding: + s_val_loss, s_val_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + msg += f" sliding_loss:{s_val_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_val_bpb:.4f}" + + log0(msg) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + if last_step: + if stop_after_step is not None and step < args.iterations: + log0( + f"stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms " + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations}" + ) + break + + elapsed_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + scale = lr_mul(step, elapsed_ms) + + zero_grad_all() + train_loss = torch.zeros((), device=device) + + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + loss = model(x, y) + train_loss += loss.detach() + (loss * grad_scale).backward() + + train_loss /= grad_accum_steps + + frac = min(step / args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps, 1.0) if args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps > 0 else 1.0 + muon_momentum = (1.0 - frac) * args.muon_momentum_warmup_start + frac * args.muon_momentum + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["momentum"] = muon_momentum + + for opt in optimizers: + for group in opt.param_groups: + group["lr"] = group["base_lr"] * scale + + if args.grad_clip_norm > 0: + torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(base_model.parameters(), args.grad_clip_norm) + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + step += 1 + ema_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + swa_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + + approx_training_time_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + should_log_train = ( + args.train_log_every > 0 and (step <= 10 or step % args.train_log_every == 0 or stop_after_step is not None) + ) + if should_log_train: + log0( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} train_loss:{train_loss.item():.4f} " + f"train_time:{approx_training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{approx_training_time_ms / step:.2f}ms " + f"lr_scale:{scale:.4f} muon_momentum:{muon_momentum:.4f} " + f"ema_updates:{ema_helper.num_updates} swa_updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}" + ) + + reached_cap = max_wallclock_ms is not None and approx_training_time_ms >= max_wallclock_ms + if distributed and max_wallclock_ms is not None: + reached_cap_tensor = torch.tensor(int(reached_cap), device=device) + dist.all_reduce(reached_cap_tensor, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX) + reached_cap = bool(reached_cap_tensor.item()) + if stop_after_step is None and reached_cap: + stop_after_step = step + + log0( + f"peak memory allocated: {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() // 1024 // 1024} MiB " + f"reserved: {torch.cuda.max_memory_reserved() // 1024 // 1024} MiB" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # FINAL SNAPSHOT SELECTION: BASE vs EMA vs SWA + # ----------------------------- + def eval_snapshot(tag: str) -> tuple[float, float]: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_eval = time.perf_counter() + snap_loss, snap_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + + msg = ( + f"{tag} val_loss:{snap_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{snap_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_eval):.0f}ms" + ) + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_slide = time.perf_counter() + s_loss, s_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + msg += ( + f" sliding_loss:{s_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_bpb:.4f} " + f"sliding_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_slide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(msg) + return snap_loss, snap_bpb + + base_state_cpu = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + candidate_results: dict[str, tuple[float, float]] = {} + + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + candidate_results["base"] = eval_snapshot("post_train_base") + + if ema_helper.has_state(): + ema_helper.apply_to(base_model) + candidate_results["ema"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_ema decay:{args.ema_decay:.6f}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_ema skipped:no_updates") + + if swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + candidate_results["swa"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_swa updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_swa skipped:no_updates") + + variant_to_index = {"base": 0, "ema": 1, "swa": 2} + index_to_variant = {0: "base", 1: "ema", 2: "swa"} + + if master_process: + best_variant = min(candidate_results.items(), key=lambda item: item[1][1])[0] + best_idx = variant_to_index[best_variant] + else: + best_idx = 0 + + best_idx_tensor = torch.tensor(best_idx, device=device, dtype=torch.int64) + if distributed: + dist.broadcast(best_idx_tensor, src=0) + best_variant = index_to_variant[int(best_idx_tensor.item())] + + if best_variant == "base": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + elif best_variant == "ema": + if not ema_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected EMA weights but EMA state is unavailable.") + elif best_variant == "swa": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + if not swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected SWA weights but SWA state is unavailable.") + else: + raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown best variant: {best_variant}") + + if master_process: + best_loss, best_bpb = candidate_results[best_variant] + log0( + f"selected_final_weights:{best_variant} " + f"val_loss:{best_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{best_bpb:.4f}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # SERIALIZE + ROUNDTRIP EVAL + # ----------------------------- + if master_process: + torch.save(base_model.state_dict(), "final_model.pt") + model_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.pt") + code_bytes = len(code.encode("utf-8")) + log0(f"Serialized model fp32/bf16: {model_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Code size: {code_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Total submission size raw: {model_bytes + code_bytes} bytes") + + quant_obj, quant_stats = quantize_state_dict_int6( + base_model.state_dict(), + tie_embeddings=base_model.tie_embeddings, + ) + quant_buf = io.BytesIO() + torch.save(quant_obj, quant_buf) + quant_raw = quant_buf.getvalue() + quant_blob, codec = compress_payload(quant_raw) + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "wb") as f: + f.write(quant_blob) + + quant_file_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.int6.ptz") + ratio = quant_stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] / max(quant_stats["int6_payload_bytes"], 1) + total_submission = quant_file_bytes + code_bytes + limit_bytes = 16 * 1024 * 1024 + + log0( + f"Serialized model int6+{codec}: {quant_file_bytes} bytes " + f"(payload:{quant_stats['int6_payload_bytes']} raw_torch:{len(quant_raw)} payload_ratio:{ratio:.2f}x)" + ) + log0(f"Total submission size int6+{codec}: {total_submission} bytes") + log0(f"submission_limit_16mb:{total_submission <= limit_bytes} limit_bytes:{limit_bytes}") + + if distributed: + dist.barrier() + + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "rb") as f: + quant_blob_disk = f.read() + quant_state = torch.load(io.BytesIO(decompress_payload(quant_blob_disk)), map_location="cpu") + base_model.load_state_dict(dequantize_state_dict_int6(quant_state), strict=True) + + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qeval = time.perf_counter() + q_val_loss, q_val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:{q_val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qeval):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(f"final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:{q_val_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.8f}") + + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qslide = time.perf_counter() + q_slide_loss, q_slide_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qslide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.8f}" + ) + + if distributed: + dist.destroy_process_group() + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() +==================================================================================================== +Running Python 3.12.3 (main, Mar 3 2026, 12:15:18) [GCC 13.3.0] +Running PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128 +Wed Mar 25 09:37:40 2026 ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 | ++-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. 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+warmup_step:8/10 +warmup_step:9/10 +warmup_step:10/10 +step:1/20000 train_loss:5.5033 train_time:219ms step_avg:219.18ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:1 swa_updates:0 +step:2/20000 train_loss:4.7465 train_time:339ms step_avg:169.64ms lr_scale:0.7412 muon_momentum:0.9200 ema_updates:2 swa_updates:0 +step:3/20000 train_loss:5.7336 train_time:423ms step_avg:140.89ms lr_scale:0.9968 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:3 swa_updates:0 +step:4/20000 train_loss:6.1111 train_time:505ms step_avg:126.34ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:4 swa_updates:0 +step:5/20000 train_loss:4.5043 train_time:588ms step_avg:117.58ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:5 swa_updates:0 +step:6/20000 train_loss:3.9855 train_time:670ms step_avg:111.73ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9201 ema_updates:6 swa_updates:0 +step:7/20000 train_loss:3.5757 train_time:753ms step_avg:107.56ms lr_scale:1.0000 muon_momentum:0.9202 ema_updates:7 swa_updates:0 +step:8/20000 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step_avg:83.50ms lr_scale:0.6248 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:5000 swa_updates:0 +step:6000/20000 train_loss:0.8703 train_time:500583ms step_avg:83.43ms lr_scale:0.3407 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:6000 swa_updates:0 +step:7000/20000 train_loss:0.7962 train_time:583935ms step_avg:83.42ms lr_scale:0.0553 muon_momentum:0.9900 ema_updates:7000 swa_updates:0 +step:7191/20000 val_loss:0.8527 val_bpb:1.2301 train_time:599730ms step_avg:83.40ms sliding_loss:0.8420 sliding_bpb:1.2148 +stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:599730ms step:7191/20000 +peak memory allocated: 12069 MiB reserved: 12546 MiB +post_train_base val_loss:0.8527 val_bpb:1.2301 eval_time:8170ms sliding_loss:0.8420 sliding_bpb:1.2148 sliding_time:20075ms +post_train_ema decay:0.997000 val_loss:0.8523 val_bpb:1.2296 eval_time:8148ms sliding_loss:0.8416 sliding_bpb:1.2142 sliding_time:20336ms +post_train_swa skipped:no_updates +selected_final_weights:ema val_loss:0.8523 val_bpb:1.2296 +Serialized model fp32/bf16: 110074917 bytes +Code size: 73320 bytes +Total submission size raw: 110148237 bytes +Serialized model int6+zstd22: 16379922 bytes (payload:27973840 raw_torch:28040853 payload_ratio:3.93x) +Total submission size int6+zstd22: 16453242 bytes +submission_limit_16mb:True limit_bytes:16777216 +final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:0.8544 val_bpb:1.2327 eval_time:8155ms +final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:0.85443275 val_bpb:1.23268589 +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:0.8439 val_bpb:1.2174 eval_time:19908ms +final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:0.84386748 val_bpb:1.21744342 diff --git a/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed42.txt b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed42.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4f55d0c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/records/track_10min_16mb/2026-03-25_ByteLevel_LeakyReLU2_BigramHash/train_seed42.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2016 @@ +from __future__ import annotations + +import copy +import glob +import io +import math +import os +import random +import subprocess +import sys +import time +import uuid +import zlib +from pathlib import Path + +import numpy as np +import torch +import torch.distributed as dist +import torch.nn.functional as F +from torch import Tensor, nn +from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP + +_THIS_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent +for _extra in (_THIS_DIR, _THIS_DIR.parent / "kernel_optimized"): + if _extra.exists(): + _extra_str = str(_extra) + if _extra_str not in sys.path: + sys.path.insert(0, _extra_str) + +try: + from chunked_mamba2 import ChunkedPureMamba2 + from chunked_gla import GatedLinearAttentionKernel +except Exception as exc: + raise ImportError( + "Could not import chunked_mamba2/chunked_gla. Ensure these files are available " + "in this directory, ../kernel_optimized, or on PYTHONPATH." + ) from exc + +try: + import zstandard as zstd +except Exception: + zstd = None + + +# ----------------------------- +# HYPERPARAMETERS +# ----------------------------- +class Hyperparameters: + # Data. + data_path = os.environ.get("DATA_PATH", "./data/datasets/fineweb10B_bytes") + train_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_train_*.bin") + val_files = os.path.join(data_path, "fineweb_val_*.bin") + run_id = os.environ.get("RUN_ID", str(uuid.uuid4())) + seed = int(os.environ.get("SEED", 1337)) + check_shard_vocab_range = bool(int(os.environ.get("CHECK_SHARD_VOCAB_RANGE", "1"))) + + # Validation / logging cadence. + val_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("VAL_BATCH_SIZE", 524_288)) + val_loss_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_LOSS_EVERY", 1000)) + val_sliding_every = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_EVERY", 0)) + val_sliding_stride = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_STRIDE", 0)) + val_sliding_max_tokens = int(os.environ.get("VAL_SLIDING_MAX_TOKENS", 0)) + train_log_every = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_LOG_EVERY", 200)) + + # Training length / wallclock. + iterations = int(os.environ.get("ITERATIONS", 20_000)) + warmdown_iters = int(os.environ.get("WARMDOWN_ITERS", 3000)) + warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("WARMUP_STEPS", 20)) + train_batch_tokens = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS", 524_288)) + train_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TRAIN_SEQ_LEN", 4096)) + max_wallclock_seconds = float(os.environ.get("MAX_WALLCLOCK_SECONDS", 600.0)) + qk_gain_init = float(os.environ.get("QK_GAIN_INIT", 1.5)) + + # Architecture. + vocab_size = int(os.environ.get("VOCAB_SIZE", 256)) + block_pattern = os.environ.get("BLOCK_PATTERN", "SSSASSSSAS").upper() + num_layers = int(os.environ.get("NUM_LAYERS", str(len(block_pattern)))) + num_kv_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_KV_HEADS", 4)) + model_dim = int(os.environ.get("MODEL_DIM", 512)) + patch_size = int(os.environ.get("PATCH_SIZE", "1")) + _default_byte_embed_dim = 128 if patch_size > 1 else model_dim + byte_embed_dim = int(os.environ.get("BYTE_EMBED_DIM", str(_default_byte_embed_dim))) + num_heads = int(os.environ.get("NUM_HEADS", 8)) + mlp_mult = int(os.environ.get("MLP_MULT", 2)) + _default_mlp_hidden = mlp_mult * model_dim + mlp_hidden = int(os.environ.get("MLP_HIDDEN", str(_default_mlp_hidden))) + smear_gate = bool(int(os.environ.get("SMEAR_GATE", "1"))) + bigram_hash_buckets = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS", "0")) + bigram_hash_dim = int(os.environ.get("BIGRAM_HASH_DIM", "64")) + use_swiglu = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_SWIGLU", "0"))) + _default_swiglu_hidden = ((_default_mlp_hidden * 2 // 3) + 63) // 64 * 64 + swiglu_hidden = int(os.environ.get("SWIGLU_HIDDEN", str(_default_swiglu_hidden))) + tie_embeddings = bool(int(os.environ.get("TIE_EMBEDDINGS", "1"))) + rope_base = float(os.environ.get("ROPE_BASE", 10000.0)) + logit_softcap = float(os.environ.get("LOGIT_SOFTCAP", 30.0)) + tied_embed_init_std = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_INIT_STD", 0.005)) + + # SSM / chunking. + d_state = int(os.environ.get("D_STATE", 64)) + d_conv = int(os.environ.get("D_CONV", 4)) + expand = int(os.environ.get("EXPAND", 1)) + headdim = int(os.environ.get("HEADDIM", 64)) + ngroups = int(os.environ.get("NGROUPS", 1)) + chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("CHUNK_SIZE", 64)) + + # Optimizer. + embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("EMBED_LR", 0.6)) + head_lr = float(os.environ.get("HEAD_LR", 0.008)) + tied_embed_lr = float(os.environ.get("TIED_EMBED_LR", 0.05)) + matrix_lr = float(os.environ.get("MATRIX_LR", 0.04)) + scalar_lr = float(os.environ.get("SCALAR_LR", 0.04)) + muon_momentum = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM", 0.99)) + muon_momentum_warmup_start = float(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_START", 0.92)) + muon_momentum_warmup_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_MOMENTUM_WARMUP_STEPS", 1500)) + muon_backend_steps = int(os.environ.get("MUON_BACKEND_STEPS", 5)) + muon_weight_decay = float(os.environ.get("MUON_WEIGHT_DECAY", 0.04)) + beta1 = float(os.environ.get("BETA1", 0.9)) + beta2 = float(os.environ.get("BETA2", 0.95)) + adam_eps = float(os.environ.get("ADAM_EPS", 1e-8)) + grad_clip_norm = float(os.environ.get("GRAD_CLIP_NORM", 0.3)) + use_compile = bool(int(os.environ.get("USE_COMPILE", "1"))) + + # EMA / SWA. + ema_decay = float(os.environ.get("EMA_DECAY", 0.997)) + ema_start_step = int(os.environ.get("EMA_START_STEP", 0)) + swa_every = int(os.environ.get("SWA_EVERY", 50)) + swa_last_frac = float(os.environ.get("SWA_LAST_FRAC", 0.4)) + + # Kept for backward compatibility with baseline envs. + ttt_lora_rank = int(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_RANK", 8)) + ttt_lora_lr = float(os.environ.get("TTT_LORA_LR", 0.01)) + ttt_chunk_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_CHUNK_SIZE", 256)) + ttt_eval_seq_len = int(os.environ.get("TTT_EVAL_SEQ_LEN", 1024)) + ttt_batch_size = int(os.environ.get("TTT_BATCH_SIZE", 64)) + + +CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS", + "mixer_scale,attn_scale,mlp_scale,resid_mix,q_gain,skip_weight,skip_weights,smear,bigram", + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS = tuple( + pattern + for pattern in os.environ.get( + "INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS", + ",".join(CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS), + ).split(",") + if pattern +) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL = int(os.environ.get("INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL", 65_536)) +INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE = torch.float16 +INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE = float(os.environ.get("INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE", 99.99984)) +INT6_CLIP_Q = INT6_CLIP_PERCENTILE / 100.0 +INT6_MAX_Q = 31 + + +def is_ssm_small_param(name: str) -> bool: + return any(p in name for p in ("A_log", "dt_bias", "conv_weight", "conv_bias", ".D", ".norm")) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MUON OPTIMIZER +# ----------------------------- +def zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(G: Tensor, steps: int = 10, eps: float = 1e-7) -> Tensor: + a, b, c = (3.4445, -4.7750, 2.0315) + X = G.bfloat16() + X /= X.norm() + eps + transposed = G.size(0) > G.size(1) + if transposed: + X = X.T + for _ in range(steps): + A = X @ X.T + B = b * A + c * A @ A + X = a * X + B @ X + return X.T if transposed else X + + +class Muon(torch.optim.Optimizer): + def __init__( + self, + params, + lr: float, + momentum: float, + backend_steps: int, + weight_decay: float = 0.0, + nesterov: bool = True, + ): + super().__init__( + params, + dict( + lr=lr, + momentum=momentum, + backend_steps=backend_steps, + weight_decay=weight_decay, + nesterov=nesterov, + ), + ) + + @torch.no_grad() + def step(self, closure=None): + loss = None + if closure is not None: + with torch.enable_grad(): + loss = closure() + + distributed = dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized() + world_size = dist.get_world_size() if distributed else 1 + rank = dist.get_rank() if distributed else 0 + + for group in self.param_groups: + params = group["params"] + if not params: + continue + lr = group["lr"] + momentum = group["momentum"] + backend_steps = group["backend_steps"] + weight_decay = group["weight_decay"] + nesterov = group["nesterov"] + + total_params = sum(int(p.numel()) for p in params) + updates_flat = torch.zeros(total_params, device=params[0].device, dtype=torch.bfloat16) + + curr = 0 + for i, p in enumerate(params): + if i % world_size == rank and p.grad is not None: + g = p.grad + state = self.state[p] + if "momentum_buffer" not in state: + state["momentum_buffer"] = torch.zeros_like(g) + buf = state["momentum_buffer"] + buf.mul_(momentum).add_(g) + if nesterov: + g = g.add(buf, alpha=momentum) + g = zeropower_via_newtonschulz5(g, steps=backend_steps) + g *= max(1, g.size(0) / g.size(1)) ** 0.5 + updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()] = g.reshape(-1) + curr += p.numel() + + if distributed: + dist.all_reduce(updates_flat, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + curr = 0 + decay_mul = 1.0 - lr * weight_decay + for p in params: + if weight_decay != 0.0: + p.mul_(decay_mul) + g = updates_flat[curr : curr + p.numel()].view_as(p).to(dtype=p.dtype) + p.add_(g, alpha=-lr) + curr += p.numel() + + return loss + + +# ----------------------------- +# DATA LOADING +# ----------------------------- +def load_data_shard(file: Path, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True) -> Tensor: + header_bytes = 256 * np.dtype("= vocab_size: + raise ValueError( + f"Shard contains token id >= vocab_size for {file}: max_id={max_id}, vocab_size={vocab_size}" + ) + + return torch.from_numpy(tokens_np.astype(np.uint16, copy=False)) + + +def load_validation_tokens( + pattern: str, + seq_len: int, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, +) -> Tensor: + files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + tokens = torch.cat( + [load_data_shard(file, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) for file in files] + ).contiguous() + usable = ((tokens.numel() - 1) // seq_len) * seq_len + if usable <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"Validation split is too short for TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={seq_len}") + return tokens[: usable + 1] + + +class TokenStream: + def __init__(self, pattern: str, vocab_size: int, check_vocab_range: bool = True): + self.files = [Path(p) for p in sorted(glob.glob(pattern))] + if not self.files: + raise FileNotFoundError(f"No files found for pattern: {pattern}") + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.check_vocab_range = check_vocab_range + self.file_idx = 0 + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[0], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def _advance_file(self) -> None: + self.file_idx = (self.file_idx + 1) % len(self.files) + self.tokens = load_data_shard( + self.files[self.file_idx], + vocab_size=self.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=self.check_vocab_range, + ) + self.pos = 0 + + def take(self, n: int) -> Tensor: + chunks: list[Tensor] = [] + remaining = n + while remaining > 0: + avail = self.tokens.numel() - self.pos + if avail <= 0: + self._advance_file() + continue + k = min(remaining, avail) + chunks.append(self.tokens[self.pos : self.pos + k]) + self.pos += k + remaining -= k + return chunks[0] if len(chunks) == 1 else torch.cat(chunks) + + +class DistributedTokenLoader: + def __init__( + self, + pattern: str, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + vocab_size: int, + check_vocab_range: bool = True, + ): + self.rank = rank + self.world_size = world_size + self.device = device + self.stream = TokenStream(pattern, vocab_size=vocab_size, check_vocab_range=check_vocab_range) + + def next_batch(self, global_tokens: int, seq_len: int, grad_accum_steps: int) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + denom = self.world_size * grad_accum_steps + if global_tokens % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS: " + f"{global_tokens} % {denom} != 0" + ) + local_tokens = global_tokens // denom + if local_tokens % seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"Per-rank tokens must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN. " + f"Got local_tokens={local_tokens}, seq_len={seq_len}" + ) + + per_rank_span = local_tokens + 1 + chunk = self.stream.take(per_rank_span * self.world_size) + start = self.rank * per_rank_span + local = chunk[start : start + per_rank_span].to(dtype=torch.int64) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, seq_len) + return x.to(self.device, non_blocking=True), y.to(self.device, non_blocking=True) + + +# ----------------------------- +# EVALUATION (BYTE-LEVEL BPB) +# ----------------------------- +def eval_val( + args: Hyperparameters, + model: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + grad_accum_steps: int, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + denom = world_size * grad_accum_steps + if args.val_batch_size % denom != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"VAL_BATCH_SIZE must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS. " + f"Got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, denom={denom}" + ) + local_batch_tokens = args.val_batch_size // denom + if local_batch_tokens < args.train_seq_len: + raise ValueError( + "VAL_BATCH_SIZE must provide at least one sequence per rank; " + f"got VAL_BATCH_SIZE={args.val_batch_size}, WORLD_SIZE={world_size}, " + f"GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={grad_accum_steps}, TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + local_batch_seqs = local_batch_tokens // args.train_seq_len + total_seqs = (val_tokens.numel() - 1) // args.train_seq_len + seq_start = (total_seqs * rank) // world_size + seq_end = (total_seqs * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + for batch_seq_start in range(seq_start, seq_end, local_batch_seqs): + batch_seq_end = min(batch_seq_start + local_batch_seqs, seq_end) + raw_start = batch_seq_start * args.train_seq_len + raw_end = batch_seq_end * args.train_seq_len + 1 + + local = val_tokens[raw_start:raw_end].to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + x = local[:-1].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + y = local[1:].reshape(-1, args.train_seq_len) + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + batch_loss = model(x, y).detach() + + batch_token_count = float(y.numel()) + val_loss_sum += batch_loss.to(torch.float64) * batch_token_count + val_token_count += batch_token_count + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = val_loss_sum / val_token_count + # Byte-level BPB is direct: nats/byte divided by ln(2). + val_bpb = val_loss.item() / math.log(2.0) + model.train() + return float(val_loss.item()), float(val_bpb) + + +def eval_val_sliding( + args: Hyperparameters, + model_for_logits: nn.Module, + rank: int, + world_size: int, + device: torch.device, + val_tokens: Tensor, +) -> tuple[float, float]: + stride = max(1, min(args.val_sliding_stride, args.train_seq_len)) + total_targets = val_tokens.numel() - 1 + start = (total_targets * rank) // world_size + end = (total_targets * (rank + 1)) // world_size + + local = val_tokens[start : end + 1] + if args.val_sliding_max_tokens > 0: + max_local_targets = max(args.val_sliding_max_tokens // max(world_size, 1), args.train_seq_len) + local = local[: min(local.numel(), max_local_targets + 1)] + if local.numel() < 2: + raise ValueError("Not enough validation tokens for sliding-window evaluation on this rank.") + + local = local.to(device=device, dtype=torch.int64, non_blocking=True) + local_targets = local.numel() - 1 + + val_loss_sum = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + val_token_count = torch.zeros((), device=device, dtype=torch.float64) + + model_for_logits.eval() + with torch.inference_mode(): + scored_upto = 0 + for window_start in range(0, local_targets, stride): + window_end = min(window_start + args.train_seq_len, local_targets) + x = local[window_start:window_end].unsqueeze(0) + y = local[window_start + 1 : window_end + 1] + + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + logits = model_for_logits.forward_logits(x) + + window_target_start = window_start + 1 + window_target_end = window_end + score_start = max(window_target_start, scored_upto + 1) + if score_start > window_target_end: + continue + + offset = score_start - window_target_start + n_tokens = window_target_end - score_start + 1 + logits_slice = logits[:, offset : offset + n_tokens, :] + y_slice = y[offset : offset + n_tokens] + + val_loss_sum += F.cross_entropy( + logits_slice.float().reshape(-1, logits_slice.size(-1)), + y_slice.reshape(-1), + reduction="sum", + ).to(torch.float64) + val_token_count += float(n_tokens) + scored_upto = window_target_end + + if scored_upto < local_targets: + raise RuntimeError( + f"Sliding eval failed to score all tokens on rank {rank}: scored={scored_upto}, total={local_targets}" + ) + + if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized(): + dist.all_reduce(val_loss_sum, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + dist.all_reduce(val_token_count, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) + + val_loss = float((val_loss_sum / val_token_count).item()) + val_bpb = float(val_loss / math.log(2.0)) + model_for_logits.train() + return val_loss, val_bpb + + +# ----------------------------- +# INT6 + ZSTD EXPORT +# ----------------------------- +def tensor_nbytes(t: Tensor) -> int: + return int(t.numel()) * int(t.element_size()) + + +def keep_float_tensor(name: str, t: Tensor, passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str]) -> Tensor: + if t.dtype in {torch.float32, torch.bfloat16}: + passthrough_orig_dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + return t.to(dtype=INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_STORE_DTYPE).contiguous() + return t.contiguous() + + +def quantize_float_tensor_int6(t: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t32 = t.float() + if t32.ndim == 2: + clip_abs = ( + torch.quantile(t32.abs(), INT6_CLIP_Q, dim=1) + if t32.numel() + else torch.empty((t32.shape[0],), dtype=torch.float32) + ) + clipped = torch.maximum(torch.minimum(t32, clip_abs[:, None]), -clip_abs[:, None]) + scale = (clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q)).clamp_min(1.0 / float(INT6_MAX_Q)) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(clipped / scale[:, None]), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q).to(torch.int8).contiguous() + return q, scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + clip_abs = float(torch.quantile(t32.abs().flatten(), INT6_CLIP_Q).item()) if t32.numel() else 0.0 + scale = torch.tensor(clip_abs / float(INT6_MAX_Q) if clip_abs > 0.0 else 1.0, dtype=torch.float32) + q = torch.clamp(torch.round(torch.clamp(t32, -clip_abs, clip_abs) / scale), -INT6_MAX_Q, INT6_MAX_Q) + return q.to(torch.int8).contiguous(), scale.to(dtype=INT6_PER_ROW_SCALE_DTYPE).contiguous() + + +def quantize_state_dict_int6(state_dict: dict[str, Tensor], tie_embeddings: bool): + quantized: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + scales: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + passthrough: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + passthrough_orig_dtypes: dict[str, str] = {} + qmeta: dict[str, dict[str, object]] = {} + stats = dict.fromkeys( + ( + "param_count", + "num_tensors", + "num_float_tensors", + "num_nonfloat_tensors", + "baseline_tensor_bytes", + "int6_payload_bytes", + ), + 0, + ) + + for name, tensor in state_dict.items(): + t = tensor.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + stats["param_count"] += int(t.numel()) + stats["num_tensors"] += 1 + stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + + if not t.is_floating_point(): + stats["num_nonfloat_tensors"] += 1 + passthrough[name] = t + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(t) + continue + + if tie_embeddings and name == "tok_emb.weight": + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + if t.numel() <= INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_MAX_NUMEL or any( + pattern in name for pattern in INT6_KEEP_FLOAT_FP32_NAME_PATTERNS + ): + kept = keep_float_tensor(name, t, passthrough_orig_dtypes) + passthrough[name] = kept + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(kept) + continue + + stats["num_float_tensors"] += 1 + q, s = quantize_float_tensor_int6(t) + if t.ndim == 2: + qmeta[name] = {"scheme": "per_row", "axis": 0} + quantized[name] = q + scales[name] = s + dtypes[name] = str(t.dtype).removeprefix("torch.") + stats["int6_payload_bytes"] += tensor_nbytes(q) + tensor_nbytes(s) + + obj: dict[str, object] = { + "__quant_format__": "int6_clean_per_row_v1", + "quantized": quantized, + "scales": scales, + "dtypes": dtypes, + "passthrough": passthrough, + } + if qmeta: + obj["qmeta"] = qmeta + if passthrough_orig_dtypes: + obj["passthrough_orig_dtypes"] = passthrough_orig_dtypes + return obj, stats + + +def dequantize_state_dict_int6(obj: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, Tensor]: + out: dict[str, Tensor] = {} + qmeta = obj.get("qmeta", {}) + passthrough_orig_dtypes = obj.get("passthrough_orig_dtypes", {}) + + for name, q in obj["quantized"].items(): + dtype = getattr(torch, obj["dtypes"][name]) + s = obj["scales"][name] + if qmeta.get(name, {}).get("scheme") == "per_row" or s.ndim > 0: + s32 = s.to(dtype=torch.float32) + out[name] = (q.float() * s32.view(q.shape[0], *([1] * (q.ndim - 1)))).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + else: + out[name] = (q.float() * float(s.item())).to(dtype=dtype).contiguous() + + for name, t in obj["passthrough"].items(): + out_t = t.detach().to("cpu").contiguous() + orig_dtype = passthrough_orig_dtypes.get(name) + if isinstance(orig_dtype, str): + out_t = out_t.to(dtype=getattr(torch, orig_dtype)).contiguous() + out[name] = out_t + + return out + + +def compress_payload(raw: bytes) -> tuple[bytes, str]: + if zstd is not None: + cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(level=22) + return b"ZST0" + cctx.compress(raw), "zstd22" + return b"ZLB0" + zlib.compress(raw, level=9), "zlib9" + + +def decompress_payload(blob: bytes) -> bytes: + if blob.startswith(b"ZST0"): + if zstd is None: + raise RuntimeError("Payload uses zstd but zstandard is not installed.") + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob[4:]) + if blob.startswith(b"ZLB0"): + return zlib.decompress(blob[4:]) + if zstd is not None: + try: + return zstd.ZstdDecompressor().decompress(blob) + except Exception: + pass + return zlib.decompress(blob) + + +# ----------------------------- +# MODEL +# ----------------------------- +class RMSNorm(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, eps: float | None = None): + super().__init__() + self.eps = eps + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),), eps=self.eps) + + +class CastedLinear(nn.Linear): + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bias = self.bias.to(x.dtype) if self.bias is not None else None + return F.linear(x, self.weight.to(x.dtype), bias) + + +def restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(module: nn.Module) -> None: + with torch.no_grad(): + for name, param in module.named_parameters(): + if param.dtype == torch.float32: + continue + if ( + param.ndim < 2 + or any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + or is_ssm_small_param(name) + ): + param.data = param.data.float() + + +class Rotary(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, base: float = 10000.0): + super().__init__() + inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim)) + self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False) + + def forward(self, seq_len: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: + t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=self.inv_freq.dtype) + freqs = torch.outer(t, self.inv_freq.to(device)) + cos = freqs.cos()[None, None, :, :] + sin = freqs.sin()[None, None, :, :] + return cos.to(dtype=dtype), sin.to(dtype=dtype) + + +def apply_rotary_emb(x: Tensor, cos: Tensor, sin: Tensor) -> Tensor: + half = x.size(-1) // 2 + x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:] + return torch.cat((x1 * cos + x2 * sin, x1 * (-sin) + x2 * cos), dim=-1) + + +class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + ): + super().__init__() + if dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("model_dim must be divisible by num_heads") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("num_heads must be divisible by num_kv_heads") + self.num_heads = num_heads + self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads + self.head_dim = dim // num_heads + if self.head_dim % 2 != 0: + raise ValueError("head_dim must be even for RoPE") + + kv_dim = self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim + self.c_q = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.c_k = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.c_v = CastedLinear(dim, kv_dim, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(dim, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + self.q_gain = nn.Parameter(torch.full((num_heads,), qk_gain_init, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.rotary = Rotary(self.head_dim, base=rope_base) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + bsz, seqlen, dim = x.shape + q = self.c_q(x) + k = self.c_k(x) + v = self.c_v(x) + + q = q.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + k = k.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + v = v.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) + + q = F.rms_norm(q, (q.size(-1),)) + k = F.rms_norm(k, (k.size(-1),)) + cos, sin = self.rotary(seqlen, x.device, q.dtype) + q = apply_rotary_emb(q, cos, sin) + k = apply_rotary_emb(k, cos, sin) + q = q * self.q_gain.to(dtype=q.dtype)[None, :, None, None] + + y = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( + q, + k, + v, + attn_mask=None, + is_causal=True, + enable_gqa=(self.num_kv_heads != self.num_heads), + ) + y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().reshape(bsz, seqlen, dim) + return self.proj(y) + + +class MLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.fc = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + x = F.leaky_relu(self.fc(x), negative_slope=0.5) + return self.proj(x.square()) + + +class SwiGLUMLP(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int, hidden: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.up_proj = CastedLinear(dim, hidden, bias=False) + self.down_proj = CastedLinear(hidden, dim, bias=False) + self.down_proj._zero_init = True + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.down_proj(F.silu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)) + + +class SmearGate(nn.Module): + def __init__(self, dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.gate = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + g = torch.sigmoid(self.gate.to(dtype=x.dtype))[None, None, :] + x_prev = F.pad(x[:, :-1, :], (0, 0, 1, 0)) + return x + g * (x_prev - x) + + +class ByteBigramHash(nn.Module): + """Hashed byte-bigram embeddings. Maps consecutive byte pairs to embedding buckets.""" + + def __init__(self, num_buckets: int, embed_dim: int, model_dim: int): + super().__init__() + self.num_buckets = num_buckets + self.embed = nn.Embedding(num_buckets, embed_dim) + self.proj = CastedLinear(embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) if embed_dim != model_dim else nn.Identity() + nn.init.normal_(self.embed.weight, std=0.01) + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + prev = F.pad(input_ids[:, :-1], (1, 0), value=0) + bigram_ids = (prev * 256 + input_ids) % self.num_buckets + emb = self.embed(bigram_ids) + return self.proj(emb) + + +class IntraPatchDecoder(nn.Module): + """Causal intra-patch decoder: predicts bytes within each patch autoregressively. + + Uses a depthwise causal convolution to mix intra-patch byte context cheaply. + Each byte k's prediction depends on the patch latent + actual bytes 0..k-1. + """ + def __init__(self, model_dim: int, byte_embed_dim: int, patch_size: int, vocab_size: int): + super().__init__() + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.proj = CastedLinear(byte_embed_dim, model_dim, bias=False) + # Depthwise causal conv to mix intra-patch context + self.conv = nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=model_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=patch_size, + padding=patch_size - 1, + groups=model_dim, + bias=False, + ) + self.norm = RMSNorm() + self.lm_head = CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + + def forward(self, latents: Tensor, input_ids: Tensor, tok_emb: nn.Embedding) -> Tensor: + B, n_patches, D = latents.shape + # 1. Fetch local byte embeddings (teacher forcing) + byte_embs = tok_emb(input_ids).view(B, n_patches, self.patch_size, -1) + # 2. Project byte features and add to global patch latent + h = latents.unsqueeze(2) + self.proj(byte_embs) + # 3. Apply causal depthwise convolution within each patch + h = h.view(B * n_patches, self.patch_size, D).transpose(1, 2) + h = self.conv(h)[..., :self.patch_size] # causal: slice off right padding + # 4. Back to flat sequence + h = h.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, n_patches * self.patch_size, D) + h = self.norm(h) + return self.lm_head(h) + + +class SSMBlock(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + dim: int, + d_state: int = 64, + d_conv: int = 4, + expand: int = 1, + headdim: int = 64, + ngroups: int = 1, + chunk_size: int = 64, + **kwargs, + ): + super().__init__() + self.mamba = ChunkedPureMamba2( + d_model=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: + return self.mamba(x) + + +class HybridLayer(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + block_type: str, + dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + ): + super().__init__() + self.block_type = block_type + self.mixer_norm = RMSNorm() + self.mlp_norm = RMSNorm() + + if block_type == "A": + self.mixer = CausalSelfAttention( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + ) + elif block_type == "S": + self.mixer = SSMBlock( + dim=dim, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + elif block_type == "G": + self.mixer = GatedLinearAttentionKernel( + dim=dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + ) + else: + raise ValueError(f"Unknown block type: {block_type}") + + if use_swiglu: + self.mlp = SwiGLUMLP(dim, swiglu_hidden) + else: + self.mlp = MLP(dim, mlp_hidden) + + self.mixer_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.mlp_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + self.resid_mix = nn.Parameter(torch.stack((torch.ones(dim), torch.zeros(dim))).float()) + + def forward(self, x: Tensor, x0: Tensor) -> Tensor: + mix = self.resid_mix.to(dtype=x.dtype) + x = mix[0][None, None, :] * x + mix[1][None, None, :] * x0 + n = self.mixer_norm(x) + mixed = self.mixer(n) + x = x + self.mixer_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * mixed + x = x + self.mlp_scale.to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * self.mlp(self.mlp_norm(x)) + return x + + +class GPT(nn.Module): + def __init__( + self, + vocab_size: int, + block_pattern: str, + model_dim: int, + num_heads: int, + num_kv_heads: int, + mlp_hidden: int, + smear_gate: bool, + tie_embeddings: bool, + tied_embed_init_std: float, + logit_softcap: float, + rope_base: float, + qk_gain_init: float, + d_state: int, + d_conv: int, + expand: int, + headdim: int, + ngroups: int, + chunk_size: int, + use_swiglu: bool = False, + swiglu_hidden: int = 704, + patch_size: int = 1, + byte_embed_dim: int = 128, + bigram_hash_buckets: int = 0, + bigram_hash_dim: int = 64, + ): + super().__init__() + if model_dim % num_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("MODEL_DIM must be divisible by NUM_HEADS") + if num_heads % num_kv_heads != 0: + raise ValueError("NUM_HEADS must be divisible by NUM_KV_HEADS") + if logit_softcap <= 0.0: + raise ValueError(f"logit_softcap must be positive, got {logit_softcap}") + if not block_pattern: + raise ValueError("BLOCK_PATTERN must be non-empty") + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={block_pattern}, expected only S, A, and G") + if patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {patch_size}") + if byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {byte_embed_dim}") + + self.patch_size = patch_size + self.use_patching = self.patch_size > 1 + self.vocab_size = vocab_size + self.byte_embed_dim = byte_embed_dim if self.use_patching else model_dim + + if self.use_patching and tie_embeddings: + tie_embeddings = False + + self.block_pattern = block_pattern + self.tie_embeddings = tie_embeddings + self.tied_embed_init_std = tied_embed_init_std + self.logit_softcap = logit_softcap + + self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, self.byte_embed_dim) + self.patch_encoder = ( + nn.Conv1d( + in_channels=self.byte_embed_dim, + out_channels=model_dim, + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + bias=False, + ) + if self.use_patching + else None + ) + self.smear_gate = SmearGate(model_dim) if smear_gate else None + self.bigram_hash = ( + ByteBigramHash(bigram_hash_buckets, bigram_hash_dim, model_dim) + if bigram_hash_buckets > 0 + else None + ) + + self.num_layers = len(block_pattern) + self.num_encoder_layers = self.num_layers // 2 + self.num_decoder_layers = self.num_layers - self.num_encoder_layers + self.num_skip_weights = min(self.num_encoder_layers, self.num_decoder_layers) + self.skip_weights = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(self.num_skip_weights, model_dim, dtype=torch.float32)) + + self.blocks = nn.ModuleList( + [ + HybridLayer( + block_type=block_pattern[i], + dim=model_dim, + num_heads=num_heads, + num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=mlp_hidden, + rope_base=rope_base, + qk_gain_init=qk_gain_init, + d_state=d_state, + d_conv=d_conv, + expand=expand, + headdim=headdim, + ngroups=ngroups, + chunk_size=chunk_size, + use_swiglu=use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=swiglu_hidden, + ) + for i in range(self.num_layers) + ] + ) + self.final_norm = RMSNorm() + + if self.use_patching: + self.intra_decoder = IntraPatchDecoder(model_dim, self.byte_embed_dim, self.patch_size, vocab_size) + self.lm_head = None + else: + self.lm_head = None if self.tie_embeddings else CastedLinear(model_dim, vocab_size, bias=False) + if self.lm_head is not None: + self.lm_head._zero_init = True + self.intra_decoder = None + + self._init_weights() + + def _init_weights(self) -> None: + if self.tie_embeddings: + nn.init.normal_(self.tok_emb.weight, mean=0.0, std=self.tied_embed_init_std) + + skip_zero_init_for_ids = set() + for block in self.blocks: + if block.block_type in ("S", "G"): + for m in block.mixer.modules(): + skip_zero_init_for_ids.add(id(m)) + + for module in self.modules(): + if isinstance(module, nn.Linear) and getattr(module, "_zero_init", False): + if id(module) not in skip_zero_init_for_ids: + nn.init.zeros_(module.weight) + + def forward_logits(self, input_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + input_len = input_ids.size(1) + x = self.tok_emb(input_ids) + + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + x = self.patch_encoder(F.pad(x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0))).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + + x = F.rms_norm(x, (x.size(-1),)) + if self.smear_gate is not None: + x = self.smear_gate(x) + if self.bigram_hash is not None: + bigram_x = self.bigram_hash(input_ids) + if self.patch_encoder is not None: + bigram_x = F.avg_pool1d( + F.pad(bigram_x.transpose(1, 2), (self.patch_size - 1, 0)), + kernel_size=self.patch_size, + stride=self.patch_size, + ).transpose(1, 2).contiguous() + x = x + bigram_x.to(dtype=x.dtype) + + x0 = x + skips: list[Tensor] = [] + + for i in range(self.num_encoder_layers): + x = self.blocks[i](x, x0) + skips.append(x) + + for i in range(self.num_decoder_layers): + bi = self.num_encoder_layers + i + if skips: + x = x + self.skip_weights[i].to(dtype=x.dtype)[None, None, :] * skips.pop() + x = self.blocks[bi](x, x0) + + x = self.final_norm(x) + if self.use_patching: + logits = self.intra_decoder(x, input_ids, self.tok_emb) + logits = logits[:, :input_len, :] + elif self.tie_embeddings: + logits = F.linear(x, self.tok_emb.weight) + else: + logits = self.lm_head(x) + + logits = self.logit_softcap * torch.tanh(logits / self.logit_softcap) + return logits + + def forward(self, input_ids: Tensor, target_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor: + logits = self.forward_logits(input_ids) + return F.cross_entropy( + logits.float().reshape(-1, logits.size(-1)), + target_ids.reshape(-1), + reduction="mean", + ) + + +def split_block_params_for_optim(model: GPT) -> tuple[list[Tensor], list[Tensor]]: + matrix_params: list[Tensor] = [] + scalar_params: list[Tensor] = [] + + for name, p in model.blocks.named_parameters(): + is_control = any(pattern in name for pattern in CONTROL_TENSOR_NAME_PATTERNS) + if p.ndim == 2 and not is_control and not is_ssm_small_param(name): + matrix_params.append(p) + else: + scalar_params.append(p) + + if model.patch_encoder is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.patch_encoder.parameters())) + + if model.bigram_hash is not None: + scalar_params.extend(list(model.bigram_hash.parameters())) + + if model.skip_weights.numel() > 0: + scalar_params.append(model.skip_weights) + + return matrix_params, scalar_params + + +class SWAHelper: + def __init__(self, start_step: int, every: int): + self.start_step = start_step + self.every = max(every, 1) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.avg_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step or (step % self.every) != 0: + return + if self.avg_params is None: + self.avg_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + self.num_updates += 1 + alpha = 1.0 / float(self.num_updates) + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.avg_params[name].add_(p.detach().float() - self.avg_params[name], alpha=alpha) + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.avg_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.avg_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.avg_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +class EMAHelper: + def __init__(self, decay: float, start_step: int = 0): + if not (0.0 < decay < 1.0): + raise ValueError(f"EMA decay must be in (0,1), got {decay}") + self.decay = decay + self.start_step = max(start_step, 0) + self.num_updates = 0 + self.shadow_params: dict[str, Tensor] | None = None + + @torch.no_grad() + def maybe_update(self, model: nn.Module, step: int) -> None: + if step < self.start_step: + return + + if self.shadow_params is None: + self.shadow_params = {name: p.detach().float().clone() for name, p in model.named_parameters()} + self.num_updates = 1 + return + + d = self.decay + one_minus = 1.0 - d + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + self.shadow_params[name].mul_(d).add_(p.detach().float(), alpha=one_minus) + self.num_updates += 1 + + @torch.no_grad() + def apply_to(self, model: nn.Module) -> bool: + if self.shadow_params is None or self.num_updates == 0: + return False + for name, p in model.named_parameters(): + p.copy_(self.shadow_params[name].to(dtype=p.dtype)) + return True + + def has_state(self) -> bool: + return self.shadow_params is not None and self.num_updates > 0 + + +# ----------------------------- +# TRAINING +# ----------------------------- +def main() -> None: + code = Path(__file__).read_text(encoding="utf-8") + args = Hyperparameters() + + args.block_pattern = "".join(args.block_pattern.split()).upper() + if any(ch not in ("S", "A", "G") for ch in args.block_pattern): + raise ValueError(f"Invalid BLOCK_PATTERN={args.block_pattern}; only S/A/G are allowed.") + + if args.num_layers != len(args.block_pattern): + if "BLOCK_PATTERN" in os.environ: + raise ValueError( + f"NUM_LAYERS={args.num_layers} must match len(BLOCK_PATTERN)={len(args.block_pattern)}" + ) + generated = ["S"] * args.num_layers + if args.num_layers > 0: + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, args.num_layers // 3)] = "A" + generated[min(args.num_layers - 1, (2 * args.num_layers) // 3)] = "A" + args.block_pattern = "".join(generated) + + args.num_layers = len(args.block_pattern) + + if args.vocab_size <= 0 or args.vocab_size > 256: + raise ValueError(f"Byte-level VOCAB_SIZE must be in [1,256], got {args.vocab_size}") + if args.train_seq_len <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be positive, got {args.train_seq_len}") + if args.patch_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"PATCH_SIZE must be positive, got {args.patch_size}") + if args.byte_embed_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BYTE_EMBED_DIM must be positive, got {args.byte_embed_dim}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets < 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS must be non-negative, got {args.bigram_hash_buckets}") + if args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0 and args.bigram_hash_dim <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"BIGRAM_HASH_DIM must be positive when BIGRAM_HASH_BUCKETS>0, got {args.bigram_hash_dim}") + if args.train_seq_len % args.patch_size != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_SEQ_LEN must be divisible by PATCH_SIZE for patch mode. " + f"Got TRAIN_SEQ_LEN={args.train_seq_len}, PATCH_SIZE={args.patch_size}" + ) + if args.chunk_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"CHUNK_SIZE must be positive, got {args.chunk_size}") + + if args.use_compile: + globals()["zeropower_via_newtonschulz5"] = torch.compile(zeropower_via_newtonschulz5) + + # ----------------------------- + # DISTRIBUTED + CUDA SETUP + # ----------------------------- + distributed = "RANK" in os.environ and "WORLD_SIZE" in os.environ + rank = int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) + world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) + local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", "0")) + + if world_size <= 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE must be positive, got {world_size}") + if 8 % world_size != 0: + raise ValueError(f"WORLD_SIZE={world_size} must divide 8 so grad_accum_steps stays integral") + + grad_accum_steps = 8 // world_size + grad_scale = 1.0 / grad_accum_steps + batch_divisor = world_size * grad_accum_steps + + if args.train_batch_tokens % batch_divisor != 0: + raise ValueError( + f"TRAIN_BATCH_TOKENS must be divisible by WORLD_SIZE*GRAD_ACCUM_STEPS={batch_divisor}, " + f"got {args.train_batch_tokens}" + ) + if (args.train_batch_tokens // batch_divisor) % args.train_seq_len != 0: + raise ValueError( + "Per-rank tokens per micro-step must be divisible by TRAIN_SEQ_LEN for static shapes. " + f"Got train_batch_tokens={args.train_batch_tokens}, divisor={batch_divisor}, " + f"train_seq_len={args.train_seq_len}" + ) + + if not torch.cuda.is_available(): + raise RuntimeError("CUDA is required") + device = torch.device("cuda", local_rank) + torch.cuda.set_device(device) + + if distributed: + dist.init_process_group(backend="nccl", device_id=device) + dist.barrier() + + master_process = rank == 0 + + torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True + torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True + from torch.backends.cuda import enable_cudnn_sdp, enable_flash_sdp, enable_math_sdp, enable_mem_efficient_sdp + + enable_cudnn_sdp(False) + enable_flash_sdp(True) + enable_mem_efficient_sdp(False) + enable_math_sdp(False) + + logfile = None + if master_process: + os.makedirs("logs", exist_ok=True) + logfile = f"logs/{args.run_id}.txt" + print(logfile) + + def log0(msg: str, console: bool = True) -> None: + if not master_process: + return + if console: + print(msg) + if logfile is not None: + with open(logfile, "a", encoding="utf-8") as f: + print(msg, file=f) + + log0(code, console=False) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + log0(f"Running Python {sys.version}", console=False) + log0(f"Running PyTorch {torch.__version__}", console=False) + log0( + subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=False).stdout, + console=False, + ) + log0("=" * 100, console=False) + + # ----------------------------- + # SEEDING + DATA + # ----------------------------- + random.seed(args.seed) + np.random.seed(args.seed) + torch.manual_seed(args.seed) + torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(args.seed) + + dataset_dir = Path(args.data_path).resolve() + actual_train_files = len(list(dataset_dir.glob("fineweb_train_*.bin"))) + val_tokens = load_validation_tokens( + args.val_files, + args.train_seq_len, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + log0("val_bpb:enabled tokenizer_kind=bytes formula=loss/ln(2)") + log0(f"train_loader:dataset:{dataset_dir.name} train_shards:{actual_train_files}") + log0(f"val_loader:shards pattern={args.val_files} tokens:{val_tokens.numel() - 1}") + log0( + f"hybrid_blocks pattern:{args.block_pattern} " + f"num_layers:{len(args.block_pattern)} ssm_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('S')} " + f"attn_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('A')} gla_blocks:{args.block_pattern.count('G')}" + ) + log0("mamba_backend:chunked_pure_pytorch") + log0( + f"byte_model vocab_size:{args.vocab_size} train_seq_len:{args.train_seq_len} " + f"train_batch_tokens:{args.train_batch_tokens} patch_size:{args.patch_size} " + f"byte_embed_dim:{args.byte_embed_dim}" + ) + log0( + f"mlp_mult:{args.mlp_mult} mlp_hidden:{args.mlp_hidden} " + f"smear_gate:{args.smear_gate} use_compile:{args.use_compile} " + f"use_swiglu:{args.use_swiglu} swiglu_hidden:{args.swiglu_hidden}" + ) + log0( + f"bigram_hash enabled:{args.bigram_hash_buckets > 0} " + f"buckets:{args.bigram_hash_buckets} dim:{args.bigram_hash_dim}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # MODEL + OPTIMIZERS + # ----------------------------- + base_model = GPT( + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + block_pattern=args.block_pattern, + model_dim=args.model_dim, + num_heads=args.num_heads, + num_kv_heads=args.num_kv_heads, + mlp_hidden=args.mlp_hidden, + smear_gate=args.smear_gate, + tie_embeddings=args.tie_embeddings, + tied_embed_init_std=args.tied_embed_init_std, + logit_softcap=args.logit_softcap, + rope_base=args.rope_base, + qk_gain_init=args.qk_gain_init, + d_state=args.d_state, + d_conv=args.d_conv, + expand=args.expand, + headdim=args.headdim, + ngroups=args.ngroups, + chunk_size=args.chunk_size, + use_swiglu=args.use_swiglu, + swiglu_hidden=args.swiglu_hidden, + patch_size=args.patch_size, + byte_embed_dim=args.byte_embed_dim, + bigram_hash_buckets=args.bigram_hash_buckets, + bigram_hash_dim=args.bigram_hash_dim, + ).to(device).bfloat16() + + if args.patch_size > 1 and args.tie_embeddings and not base_model.tie_embeddings: + log0("byte_patch: tie_embeddings disabled because PATCH_SIZE>1 uses an explicit patch decoder.") + + for module in base_model.modules(): + if isinstance(module, CastedLinear): + module.float() + if isinstance(module, Rotary): + module.inv_freq.data = module.inv_freq.data.float() + restore_low_dim_params_to_fp32(base_model) + + compiled_model = torch.compile(base_model, dynamic=False, fullgraph=True) if args.use_compile else base_model + model: nn.Module = DDP(compiled_model, device_ids=[local_rank], broadcast_buffers=False) if distributed else compiled_model + + matrix_params, scalar_params = split_block_params_for_optim(base_model) + if base_model.smear_gate is not None: + scalar_params.append(base_model.smear_gate.gate) + + token_lr = args.tied_embed_lr if base_model.tie_embeddings else args.embed_lr + + optimizer_tok = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.tok_emb.weight], "lr": token_lr, "base_lr": token_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizer_muon = Muon( + matrix_params, + lr=args.matrix_lr, + momentum=args.muon_momentum_warmup_start, + backend_steps=args.muon_backend_steps, + weight_decay=args.muon_weight_decay, + ) + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["base_lr"] = args.matrix_lr + + optimizer_scalar = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": scalar_params, "lr": args.scalar_lr, "base_lr": args.scalar_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + + optimizers: list[torch.optim.Optimizer] = [optimizer_tok, optimizer_muon, optimizer_scalar] + if base_model.lm_head is not None: + optimizer_head = torch.optim.Adam( + [{"params": [base_model.lm_head.weight], "lr": args.head_lr, "base_lr": args.head_lr}], + betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2), + eps=args.adam_eps, + fused=True, + ) + optimizers.insert(1, optimizer_head) + + n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in base_model.parameters()) + matrix_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in matrix_params) + scalar_param_count = sum(p.numel() for p in scalar_params) + + swa_start_step = max(int(args.iterations * (1.0 - args.swa_last_frac)), 0) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + log0(f"model_params:{n_params}") + log0(f"optimizer_split matrix_params:{matrix_param_count} scalar_params:{scalar_param_count}") + log0(f"world_size:{world_size} grad_accum_steps:{grad_accum_steps}") + log0("sdp_backends:cudnn=False flash=True mem_efficient=False math=False") + log0(f"attention_mode:gqa num_heads:{args.num_heads} num_kv_heads:{args.num_kv_heads}") + log0( + f"ssm_config d_state:{args.d_state} d_conv:{args.d_conv} expand:{args.expand} " + f"headdim:{args.headdim} ngroups:{args.ngroups} chunk_size:{args.chunk_size}" + ) + log0( + f"tie_embeddings:{base_model.tie_embeddings} embed_lr:{token_lr} " + f"head_lr:{args.head_lr if base_model.lm_head is not None else 0.0} " + f"matrix_lr:{args.matrix_lr} scalar_lr:{args.scalar_lr} " + f"muon_weight_decay:{args.muon_weight_decay}" + ) + log0( + f"muon_momentum_warmup start:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_start} " + f"target:{args.muon_momentum} steps:{args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps}" + ) + log0( + f"ema decay:{args.ema_decay} start_step:{args.ema_start_step} | " + f"swa every:{args.swa_every} last_frac:{args.swa_last_frac} start_step:{swa_start_step}" + ) + log0( + f"iterations:{args.iterations} warmup_steps:{args.warmup_steps} warmdown_iters:{args.warmdown_iters} " + f"max_wallclock_seconds:{args.max_wallclock_seconds:.3f}" + ) + log0( + f"val_sliding stride:{args.val_sliding_stride} every:{args.val_sliding_every} " + f"max_tokens:{args.val_sliding_max_tokens}" + ) + log0(f"seed:{args.seed}") + + # ----------------------------- + # DATA + SCHEDULE HELPERS + # ----------------------------- + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + + def zero_grad_all() -> None: + for opt in optimizers: + opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) + + max_wallclock_ms = 1000.0 * args.max_wallclock_seconds if args.max_wallclock_seconds > 0 else None + + def lr_mul(step: int, elapsed_ms: float) -> float: + if args.warmdown_iters <= 0: + return 1.0 + if max_wallclock_ms is None: + warmdown_start = max(args.iterations - args.warmdown_iters, 0) + if step < warmdown_start: + return 1.0 + return max((args.iterations - step) / max(args.warmdown_iters, 1), 0.0) + + step_ms = elapsed_ms / max(step, 1) + warmdown_ms = args.warmdown_iters * step_ms + remaining_ms = max(max_wallclock_ms - elapsed_ms, 0.0) + return remaining_ms / max(warmdown_ms, 1e-9) if remaining_ms <= warmdown_ms else 1.0 + + # ----------------------------- + # WARMUP (compile path priming) + # ----------------------------- + if args.warmup_steps > 0: + initial_model_state = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + initial_optimizer_states = [copy.deepcopy(opt.state_dict()) for opt in optimizers] + + model.train() + for warmup_step in range(args.warmup_steps): + zero_grad_all() + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + warmup_loss = model(x, y) + (warmup_loss * grad_scale).backward() + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + if args.warmup_steps <= 20 or (warmup_step + 1) % 10 == 0 or warmup_step + 1 == args.warmup_steps: + log0(f"warmup_step:{warmup_step + 1}/{args.warmup_steps}") + + base_model.load_state_dict(initial_model_state, strict=True) + for opt, state in zip(optimizers, initial_optimizer_states, strict=True): + opt.load_state_dict(state) + zero_grad_all() + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = True + + train_loader = DistributedTokenLoader( + args.train_files, + rank, + world_size, + device, + vocab_size=args.vocab_size, + check_vocab_range=args.check_shard_vocab_range, + ) + ema_helper = EMAHelper(decay=args.ema_decay, start_step=args.ema_start_step) + swa_helper = SWAHelper(start_step=swa_start_step, every=max(args.swa_every, 1)) + + # ----------------------------- + # MAIN LOOP + # ----------------------------- + training_time_ms = 0.0 + stop_after_step: int | None = None + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + step = 0 + while True: + last_step = step == args.iterations or (stop_after_step is not None and step >= stop_after_step) + + should_validate = last_step or (args.val_loss_every > 0 and step % args.val_loss_every == 0) + if should_validate: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + training_time_ms += 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + + val_loss, val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + + msg = ( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} val_loss:{val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{val_bpb:.4f} " + f"train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{training_time_ms / max(step, 1):.2f}ms" + ) + + should_validate_sliding = args.val_sliding_stride > 0 and ( + last_step or (args.val_sliding_every > 0 and step % args.val_sliding_every == 0) + ) + if should_validate_sliding: + s_val_loss, s_val_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + msg += f" sliding_loss:{s_val_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_val_bpb:.4f}" + + log0(msg) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t0 = time.perf_counter() + + if last_step: + if stop_after_step is not None and step < args.iterations: + log0( + f"stopping_early: wallclock_cap train_time:{training_time_ms:.0f}ms " + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations}" + ) + break + + elapsed_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + scale = lr_mul(step, elapsed_ms) + + zero_grad_all() + train_loss = torch.zeros((), device=device) + + for micro_step in range(grad_accum_steps): + if distributed: + model.require_backward_grad_sync = micro_step == grad_accum_steps - 1 + x, y = train_loader.next_batch(args.train_batch_tokens, args.train_seq_len, grad_accum_steps) + with torch.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16, enabled=True): + loss = model(x, y) + train_loss += loss.detach() + (loss * grad_scale).backward() + + train_loss /= grad_accum_steps + + frac = min(step / args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps, 1.0) if args.muon_momentum_warmup_steps > 0 else 1.0 + muon_momentum = (1.0 - frac) * args.muon_momentum_warmup_start + frac * args.muon_momentum + for group in optimizer_muon.param_groups: + group["momentum"] = muon_momentum + + for opt in optimizers: + for group in opt.param_groups: + group["lr"] = group["base_lr"] * scale + + if args.grad_clip_norm > 0: + torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(base_model.parameters(), args.grad_clip_norm) + + for opt in optimizers: + opt.step() + zero_grad_all() + + step += 1 + ema_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + swa_helper.maybe_update(base_model, step) + + approx_training_time_ms = training_time_ms + 1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t0) + should_log_train = ( + args.train_log_every > 0 and (step <= 10 or step % args.train_log_every == 0 or stop_after_step is not None) + ) + if should_log_train: + log0( + f"step:{step}/{args.iterations} train_loss:{train_loss.item():.4f} " + f"train_time:{approx_training_time_ms:.0f}ms step_avg:{approx_training_time_ms / step:.2f}ms " + f"lr_scale:{scale:.4f} muon_momentum:{muon_momentum:.4f} " + f"ema_updates:{ema_helper.num_updates} swa_updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}" + ) + + reached_cap = max_wallclock_ms is not None and approx_training_time_ms >= max_wallclock_ms + if distributed and max_wallclock_ms is not None: + reached_cap_tensor = torch.tensor(int(reached_cap), device=device) + dist.all_reduce(reached_cap_tensor, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX) + reached_cap = bool(reached_cap_tensor.item()) + if stop_after_step is None and reached_cap: + stop_after_step = step + + log0( + f"peak memory allocated: {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() // 1024 // 1024} MiB " + f"reserved: {torch.cuda.max_memory_reserved() // 1024 // 1024} MiB" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # FINAL SNAPSHOT SELECTION: BASE vs EMA vs SWA + # ----------------------------- + def eval_snapshot(tag: str) -> tuple[float, float]: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_eval = time.perf_counter() + snap_loss, snap_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + + msg = ( + f"{tag} val_loss:{snap_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{snap_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_eval):.0f}ms" + ) + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_slide = time.perf_counter() + s_loss, s_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + msg += ( + f" sliding_loss:{s_loss:.4f} sliding_bpb:{s_bpb:.4f} " + f"sliding_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_slide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(msg) + return snap_loss, snap_bpb + + base_state_cpu = {name: tensor.detach().cpu().clone() for name, tensor in base_model.state_dict().items()} + candidate_results: dict[str, tuple[float, float]] = {} + + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + candidate_results["base"] = eval_snapshot("post_train_base") + + if ema_helper.has_state(): + ema_helper.apply_to(base_model) + candidate_results["ema"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_ema decay:{args.ema_decay:.6f}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_ema skipped:no_updates") + + if swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + candidate_results["swa"] = eval_snapshot(f"post_train_swa updates:{swa_helper.num_updates}") + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + else: + log0("post_train_swa skipped:no_updates") + + variant_to_index = {"base": 0, "ema": 1, "swa": 2} + index_to_variant = {0: "base", 1: "ema", 2: "swa"} + + if master_process: + best_variant = min(candidate_results.items(), key=lambda item: item[1][1])[0] + best_idx = variant_to_index[best_variant] + else: + best_idx = 0 + + best_idx_tensor = torch.tensor(best_idx, device=device, dtype=torch.int64) + if distributed: + dist.broadcast(best_idx_tensor, src=0) + best_variant = index_to_variant[int(best_idx_tensor.item())] + + if best_variant == "base": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + elif best_variant == "ema": + if not ema_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected EMA weights but EMA state is unavailable.") + elif best_variant == "swa": + base_model.load_state_dict(base_state_cpu, strict=True) + if not swa_helper.apply_to(base_model): + raise RuntimeError("Selected SWA weights but SWA state is unavailable.") + else: + raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown best variant: {best_variant}") + + if master_process: + best_loss, best_bpb = candidate_results[best_variant] + log0( + f"selected_final_weights:{best_variant} " + f"val_loss:{best_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{best_bpb:.4f}" + ) + + # ----------------------------- + # SERIALIZE + ROUNDTRIP EVAL + # ----------------------------- + if master_process: + torch.save(base_model.state_dict(), "final_model.pt") + model_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.pt") + code_bytes = len(code.encode("utf-8")) + log0(f"Serialized model fp32/bf16: {model_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Code size: {code_bytes} bytes") + log0(f"Total submission size raw: {model_bytes + code_bytes} bytes") + + quant_obj, quant_stats = quantize_state_dict_int6( + base_model.state_dict(), + tie_embeddings=base_model.tie_embeddings, + ) + quant_buf = io.BytesIO() + torch.save(quant_obj, quant_buf) + quant_raw = quant_buf.getvalue() + quant_blob, codec = compress_payload(quant_raw) + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "wb") as f: + f.write(quant_blob) + + quant_file_bytes = os.path.getsize("final_model.int6.ptz") + ratio = quant_stats["baseline_tensor_bytes"] / max(quant_stats["int6_payload_bytes"], 1) + total_submission = quant_file_bytes + code_bytes + limit_bytes = 16 * 1024 * 1024 + + log0( + f"Serialized model int6+{codec}: {quant_file_bytes} bytes " + f"(payload:{quant_stats['int6_payload_bytes']} raw_torch:{len(quant_raw)} payload_ratio:{ratio:.2f}x)" + ) + log0(f"Total submission size int6+{codec}: {total_submission} bytes") + log0(f"submission_limit_16mb:{total_submission <= limit_bytes} limit_bytes:{limit_bytes}") + + if distributed: + dist.barrier() + + with open("final_model.int6.ptz", "rb") as f: + quant_blob_disk = f.read() + quant_state = torch.load(io.BytesIO(decompress_payload(quant_blob_disk)), map_location="cpu") + base_model.load_state_dict(dequantize_state_dict_int6(quant_state), strict=True) + + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qeval = time.perf_counter() + q_val_loss, q_val_bpb = eval_val( + args=args, + model=model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip val_loss:{q_val_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qeval):.0f}ms" + ) + log0(f"final_int6_roundtrip_exact val_loss:{q_val_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_val_bpb:.8f}") + + if args.val_sliding_stride > 0: + torch.cuda.synchronize() + t_qslide = time.perf_counter() + q_slide_loss, q_slide_bpb = eval_val_sliding( + args=args, + model_for_logits=base_model, + rank=rank, + world_size=world_size, + device=device, + val_tokens=val_tokens, + ) + torch.cuda.synchronize() + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.4f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.4f} " + f"eval_time:{1000.0 * (time.perf_counter() - t_qslide):.0f}ms" + ) + log0( + f"final_int6_roundtrip_sliding_exact val_loss:{q_slide_loss:.8f} val_bpb:{q_slide_bpb:.8f}" + ) + + if distributed: + dist.destroy_process_group() + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() +==================================================================================================== +Running Python 3.12.3 (main, Mar 3 2026, 12:15:18) [GCC 13.3.0] +Running PyTorch 2.11.0+cu128 +Wed Mar 25 09:23:03 2026 ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 | ++-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. 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